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Last Battleship to be built Under Arms Treaty b Commit ioned By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN

F THE U. 8. 8. Colorado—the superdreadnaught just commissioned —ever goes Into battle, ths citizen* of the Centennial State are likely to spend most of their time on their knees in prayer until they hear the result For . they are Just wrapped up in the Col- > orado and Hike to burst with pride over this 327,000.000 fighting ship, the third to bear the name and probably the most powerful in the world. The Colorado state flag flies on her. One

hundred and fifty Colorado boys are among the brew and more are going. Reproduction* of Colorado scenery adorn her. The silver service presented by the state to the old Colorado (now the IPueblo) is on board. For other reasons the Colorado Is of particular teterest to the nation —and to the world. “A vast •experimental laboratory of marine engineering,** febe has been called, and it la said of her: “Though She is primarily a fighting machine, she need never fire a shot at the enemy to earn her cost of $27,taXOOO many times ovv/ for her country." It ap*snrs that the most advanced designs of ship tnuipment have been installed in the Colorado nd the results of their test will be placed at the towoaal of American shipbuilders for their guidance In building the national merchant marine and tbs future navy. , | Metric motor-driven propellers, 18,000-horse-fopjN* turbine generatora, and oil-burning boilers fire part of the advanced construction that ‘s said to make this 32,OXXton superdreadnaught slgniflMnt to marine engineers. Further unusual features include these: From a forward speed of torenty-one knots the Colorado can be brought up Mnoding in three minutes. Her elghteen-lnch ar-mor-plate is supposed to be proof against subknarines and air bombs, as well as direct fire. With B writable bonmreomb of water-tight compartments Me must be litejrallv shot to pieces before she can we sunk. Kghtjlß-inch guns in two forward and WO after turrets (the largest permitted by the conference) can drop right tons of Aral and high explosives on the deck of an enemy twenty miles away—enough to pot out of commlsikm anything afloat A captive observation baltand several scout airplanes are also carried, men in the control-room far down between the too ifijOOO horsepower turboelectric generators ■nd the four &006-horsepower electric propeller ■Brioni, control every Aovement of these two gi- ; Bhtle mechanisms, and every other Important macMn* <m orders from the bridge. | Another thing that adds to the interest In the the West Virginia, Is the last superdreednaught Which the United States will undertake for fouryrei* under the Five-Power Naval treaty. Shat means that she may be the last of her kind . ritkar because of universal peace or because by tort tfcne the capital ship may bo wholly futile tor the purposes of war. i The thM Colorado was designated as Battleship Nte 4B (counting from the first In the now Mvy), authorised in the building program of Aug. Ito IfiMk to boos I*ooo tone trial displacement, light Uhrtean-tnch guns tn four center line turret* jhrrive tvs terh guns tee torpedo diliiria right Mttalrcraft guns and two torpedo tubes. Her agate teaibtairy io designated to attain twentyhan knots with about 28,000 hnrsepowu, two main gmaretiws of Westinghouse type driving ■nton on tour shaft* one screw on each, fihe is Armored on the watertin* turret* conning tower <Mfi smote uptakes. She uses only fuel oil and her ataortng eagte* anchor windlass and other auxiliary machinery are ricitric driven. She will tesasri a catapult for launching airplanes and genbnlly bate all approvements of the beat naval At the WteMhgtoa coafUrsnco on the reduction of aroaamunt* the Colorado and the West Virginia ware on the Hot ottered of uncompleted ships to ha strapped. bat the Japanese were so bent on refeateteg their newuri bertHuhtp, Muttra. at the time hfi bat coacptoted, Chat a new scrapping program Was mad* by which the Colorado and West Vlr■tala wore to bo cucnptated and the two oldest dreadnought* Delaware and North Dakota, much, Mteftcr vesuri* would than bo scrapped, the reMttM teenage oflbatttag the Japanese increase

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through the Mutsu. By the conference treaty, no more battleships are to be built before 1937. The Colorado, the West Virginia and the Maryland (this last commissioned in 1921), three sister ships, are the most powerful and modern battleships In the world, though qne British battleship is a close rival. Jhe Colorado Is 624 feet in length, 97 feet 3% Inches beam. 32,600 tons mean displacement She Is driven at a speed of. twenty-one knots (about twenty-five land miles) an hour by electrical drive machinery. She carries eight slxteen-inch guns as her main battery, In addition to twelve fiveinch, eight three-inch and two torpedo tubes. She has about 28,000 horsepower. Her comprises 69 officers, 1,266 enlisted men and 75 marines. Captain Reginald Rowan Belknap, U. S. N„ commanding officer, desires to have as many Colorado boys on board as possible. Captain Belknap entered the Annapolis Naval academy in 1887, served In the Spanish war, Philippine insurrection and Boxer campaign, was decorated for services in connection with the Messina earthquake relief in 1900 and was commander of mine-laying and mine-sweeping branch of the Atlantic fleet from 1915 to 1917. He was promoted to captain in May, 1917, and was awarded the pavy distinguished service medal for service In connection with fitting out and afterwards commanding the American mine-laying squadron in the northern barrage operation In the North sea. During 1919 and 1920 he commanded the battleship Delaware and recently he was on the staff of the naval war college. Com. WUsqn Brown, United States navy. Is executive. The new battleship Colorado Is the third ship in the Amerigm navy to bear that name. The first, named Colorado river, was a wooden steam frigate of 3.400 tons displacement, mounting forty guns, launched at the Norfolk navy yard on June 19. 1856. She was one of the larger vessel* of her time in our navy, corresponding to the intermediate or fifty-gun ship of the days before stsam and to the armored or battle cruiser of later period*. Colorado 1 first saw war service as flagship of Commodore William Marvtae, In establishing the blockade of th* Gulf of Mexico coast from Key West to the Rio Grande in the Civil war. Admiral Farragut wanted the Colorado for hl* attack on the forts below New Orleans, in April, 1862. but her twenty-three feet draft was much too deep to cross the Mtafisaippl bar. Later the Colorado became flagship of Commodore H. K. Thatcher tn the North Atlantic blockading squadron. After the aril war the Colorado I .served a* flagship on various stations. Including the Asiatic. Feb. 14- 1885. thirty-one years after the laying of her keel, she was sold to the usual fate of being broken up and burned for her copper fastenings and other salvage material. Meantime the territory of Colorado, organized a* such in 1861. had been admitted Aug. L 1876. into the Union as * state. Acquired part with the Louisiana purchase in 1803, part with Texas in 1845, and the remainder by cession from Mexico In 1848. the country was little known before 1858, when discovery of gold led to its settlement and growth. Man-of-war Colorado H was one of six armored

at tetervlslble point* not mors than tow mfies apart, and of a dstaUed msg of the strip of country two miles sack side of the boundary. At proadnent itvgr crossings, and at main potato of trsveL tho monuments are ssctfamal shafts Bra feet high, of alurnhsam browse, watering 300 pounds sat la a ton of concrete. At leas im.ftertsnt potato the awatosMats are

three feet high and set In 1300 pound* of concrete. In speaking of the actual surveying work, a member of the commission appointed to mark the boundary line said: *The treaty makers (American and British, 1887) laid a ruler on a map and said. This shall be the ffividtag line.’ Th* commission was five years finishing th* task. “The boundary ran* for 600 mile* over great mountain ranges, glaciers, swift rivers, quicksands, bottomlemi morssoss. High summits were crossed.

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cruisers authorized three at a time, by congress in 1899 and 1900, of 13,680 tons displacement, carrying four eight-inch guns in two turrets, fourteen sixinch, a score of smaller caliber and two underwater torpedo tubes. Her Niclausse boilers and fourcylinder triple expansion engines driving twin screws, developing 27,000 horsepower, attained a maximum speed of over twenty-two knots. Her ship's company numbered 910. In 1915 the Colorado II became flagship of the Pacific reserve fleet and on December 1, 1916, her name was changed to Pueblo, after the second city in Colorado. Under this name she served in the cruiser and transport force in the World war under Capt. G. W. Williams, escorting transports across, and after the armistice bringing 10,136 troops home. In 1921 she became the receiving ship at New York, pending further active employment. What remarkable changes have taken place In the slxty-flve years’ lapse between the first and the latest Colorado! As a general measure of size, 3.400 tons displacement is grown nearly tenfold; the old seasoned oak hull Is now all steel, of thick armored sides and many watertight compartments; full power has utterly disappeared like cage masts, topped by large fire control stations; ‘he symmetrical tracery of standing and running rigging Is now represented by the bristling, knobby and odd placed radio antennae. Down below In the old frigate, rectangular boilers nf copper mounted steam at only 25 pounds pressure to a thumping, cumbersome, slow-moving horizontal reciprocating engine, which by means of a single screw drove the ship at ten knots at best, where now oil burning, tubular steel boilers generate 290 pounds steam pressure for the delicately balanced turbines adjusted to the thousandth of an tach which, without the least tremor of vibration and with scarce a sigh of sound, spin at about 2.100 revolutions a minute, generating alter Dating electric current which by a twelfth reduction turns four screw propellers 171 revolutions for a ship speed of twenty-one knots. For illumination oil lamp* and candles are retained only for emergency, should electric light faiL and the present sunlike searchlight had no like in the frigate days. In the day’s work, the shrill pipe and hoarse voice of the bosta’s mates passing the word along (he open sweep of decks is now supplemented. In fact all but replaced, by speaking tubes, telephone and other Instruments, electric or mechanical, for transmitting communications to scores of separated spaces all through th* ship. And at mealtime*, while navy beans still bold their own. salt pork, the venerable salt horse, plum duff and hardtack have given place to refrigerated meat, fresh vegetable*, bakers* bread, pie and Ice cream. . Os all changes, however, the greatest is ta the kind of demands made upon the crew and officers. In the frigate. Colorado, the yard* were hoisted and braced about, the sails were reefed and furled, the anchor weighed, the boats rowed and hoisted, the ship steered, and stores whipped on board—all by band. Handling sail, besides making strong bodies, taught eye, hand, and brain to work nimbly together. In contrast, most of the demands for power in the modern battleship Colorado are met by machinery.

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JAILDELIVERY FOILED BY DOG Canine Attacks Prisoners When They Overpower Deputy Sheriff. REWARDEDWITH STEAK Youngstown, O.—lt has been truthfully stated that a dog is man’s most faithful friend. Deputy Sheriff George Callahan of Mahoning county has reason to vouch for the truth of the statement. Paul Lyden, a Republican, was elected to the office of sheriff In 1921, assuming office on January 1, 1922. He is a great lover of the canine family, and when a friend presented him with a police dog puppy early In 1922 Paul Immediately naturalized him by naming him after his Republican Idol. Theodore Roosevelt, and soon “Teddy" was a real deputy sheriff, although not on the pay roll. The dbg was quickly taught to keep watch on prisoners; to make friends with no one other than company selected by the sheriff, said company, of course Including the various deputies about the jail. On the night of September 17, Deputy Sheriff George Callahan went Into the jail to check his prisoners and see that they were locked up for the night He had no sooner entered the cell block than he was set upon by seven colored prisoners, three of whom ' were awaiting trial for grave offenses. Fortunately he left the outside door open, something that he rarely had done previously. The prisoners grabbed him and attempted to" take his keys and weapons from him. He put up a battle, but was rapidly getting the worst of the scrimmage against the heavy odds. Dog Attacks Ringleader. "Teddy” who was reclining on a rug In the sheriff’s office had heard the sound of the scuffle. He ran Into the cell room, and sizing up the situation, M' * / Went Into Action. went into action. He grabbed Floyd Barrett, charged with assault, and the ringleader of the mutiny, by the right forearm and dragged him off Callahan, and then returned to the fight and seized Clem Head, charged with murder, by the leg and pulled him to the ground. The other mutineers then became alarmed and fled to their cells. “Teddy" then for the first time barked, as much as to say. “Come on, all of you,” but the challenge was not accepted. After seeing that his prisoners were secure for the night, Callahan patched up his bruises with articles in the sheriff's first-aid kit, called to “Teddy" to accompany him, and told Deputy Lamont Jacobs that he and ‘Teddy" were going for a walk. “Teddy" refused to tell where the stroll took Callahan and himself, but there Is a persistent rumor that it led to a restaurant a short distance from the county jail, and that the deputy bribed "Teddy” to remain his faithful friend. At least he was seen to pay for a T-bone steak, while he dined on coffee and. When Sheriff Lyden returned from Columbus, where he had gone to commit a prisoner to the penitentiary, ho rewarded his faithful canine with a brand new collar. Battles Forty Officers; Afraid of Little Wife Chicago.—lt took 40 policemen to subdue Morrow Harding, when he was arrested for mental observation. -Save me, judge." the man cried in terror when his slim little wife appeared in court. Mrs. Harding was forced to leave the court room before her husband, who is six feet six Inches tall, could be convinced he was safe. Haring Causes Youth’s Suicide. New Salem. Ind.—After being hazed } by fellow high school students, Vernon A. Walke. sixteen years old, committed suicide. Brooding over Jthe hazing caused the act, the boy’s parents said. Police have begun an investigation. Lunatic on Parole Slays Aunt. Lincoln, R. I.—" Urged by voices to cut off the heads of the two women,* Arthur Rushton. of this city, a pa ruled lunatic, killed his aunt, Mrs. Annie Fitzpatrick, and wounded his mother, according to the police. i Owe a M’Hkmaliw, New a Beggar. New York.—Joseph Tattar, who said he had lost in hotel ventures aR of his »ljOOO,a», which he had earned as conductor of orchestras, was arrested on a charge of vagrancy, after he had been rawed bearing

I “Sells” Plane, Then Flies Away in It : Oklahoma City, Okla. —A bandit who stole an airplane and j then “sold” it for $1,200 Is being ;! sought by police of this city. !|! After “selling” the plane in Oklahoma City, the man offered ;l; to give a demonstation In it. He disappeared Into the clouds ; with the money and the ma- J: chine. He gave the name of R. H. Tarbutton to the “pur- ■ chaser,” police said. CONVICT IN GIRL'S GARB TRIES TO FLEE PRISON Warden of Nebraska Penitentiary Notices “Visitor” Needs Shave and Grabs “Her.” Lincoln, Neb.—Faultlessly dressed in feminine garb. Otto Cole, lifer at the Nebraska state penitentiary, attempted to escape by casually walking out with the visitors, who had been permitted to inspect the Institution. So clever was. the convict’s masquerade that he passed several guards before being detected by Deputy Warden Kavanaugh, who was stationed near the outer gate. Aa the visitors were leaving the prison confines, Warden Kavanaugh's attention was attracted to a woman member whose actions he thought strange and whom he could not recall as having entered. Edging closer vo obtain a better view the warden was startled by seeing the telltale growth of beard under a liberal veneer of face powder and rouge. Immediately several guards quietly guided her out of the crowd. Cole was sentenced to life imprisonment from Omaha on April 21, 1922, for the alleged murder of an Omaha pawnbroker following a quarrel over a watch. Cole was known to Omaha police as Immune Eddie English of Chicago because of his ability to evade arrest. The feminine clothing of his disguise had been designed and majle by himself from various remnants obtained from prison stock, his brown silk hose being the sleeves of a discarded silk jersey. Nine-Year-Old Girl Eligible to Teach New York. —Qualified to teach in the schools of Los Angeles, Cal., Miss Elizabeth Benson, nine years old, has arrived in this city to enter high school as a freshman. Miss Benson, it is admitted, is the queen of all the infant prodigies. Elizabeth wasp-given a mentality test in Los Angeles last year. She made a mark of 2.14, the highest ever recorded. She cannot be tested further for shje broke the scale. The previous high record was 1.86. Under a test given teachers in the Los Angeles schools, Elizabeth made a mark of 86, as against an average of 87.5 for the 694 teachers- who took part, making “her mentally capable of teaching in a city high school. Strangest of all. the child's mother says, Is that Elizabeth hates to study. She never takes a book home from school for overtime work, and seldom Is seen studying tn school. She reads all the time, however. Unlike the popular idea of a prodigy, Elizabeth Is no “queer” child. She Is, and always has been, in perfect health, plump, even tempered, and absolutely without self-consciousness. Divorced Wife Too Young to Remarry Her Husband St. Clairsville, O.—Married at eighteen, mother of an elghteen-month-old son, divorced, and still too young to marry. That is the position of Mrs. Bertha Sayre of this city. Mrs. Sayre and her husband, divorced a year ago, decided to remarry. The wife was told She would have to obtain her parents’ consent before a license could be Issued. Kill* Loot Sweetheart Ogdensburg, N. Y. —When she returned her engagement ring tp him. Miss Alberta Stokes, of this city, was shot and killed by Harold Barrington, her lover. Barrington, when he saw the girl dead, blew off his head with a shotgun. Giri 13, Kills Self When Kept Hom*. Hamilton, O.—Because her mother refused to permit her to attend a moving picture show In a neighboring town, thlrteen-year-old Romllda Wood of Hamilton committed suicide with her father's revolver. f , Bursting Meteor Blind* Sailor. New York. —The bursting of a meteor, which blinded the second officer for five minutes, was reported on the log of .the Orbit*. All the air was filled with a pale green light when the meteor bursted. Ride* Fish. Beata It to Death. Vancouver, Wash.—T. R. Wilson, eighty, of Hazeldeil while fishing near here recently r leaped astride a 27pound salmon and beat It to death with a board, be reported here. Boy Held for Cracking Safe. Omaha, Neb. —Accused of helping to rob the safe In a store at Red Qak, lowa, ten-year-old “BUly” Yates is In jail here. ; Auto Maker* Setting Record in 1923. Washington.—All records for auto building are being broken this year, according to a report from the Department of Commerce. During the first eight months of 1923, the report showed, 2,689334 cars were manufactured. Nap* In Store, Awakee in GelL New York.—Frank Vail, eighteen yean old, slept his way into jail here. After breaking Into a candy store, he fell asleep beneath the counter. A policeman found him there.

11 1 WOOD CAUSE OF HIGH RENT Disappearance of Forests Held Responsible for Tremendous Increase in Cost of Building. a — ■ - The savage built his shelter of wood, according to the availability of the material and his knowledge of . handling It, and In primitive countries today, human habitations are made of of trees, limbs, leaves, wherever they I exist, almost precisely as in the dawn of civilization, says the New York State College of Forestry, showing the relation of the wood shortage and the shortage of homes. “It is Instinctive with man to use wood because of its adaptability and durability and because the custom has ' been handed down through the ages. As long as wood is plentiful and cheap. I man will use It to the exclusion of t other materials because of the perfect sendee wood renders. E “In this country the common people i build homes of wood as long as they can afford them. When wood goes . beyond the purchasing power of the . I average person, the cost of owning a i • home becomes prohibitive to the mar ■ jority of people. “The consumption of wood usually s ! expands with the development of civils ization. But the people of the United i States today are consuming the same t amount of timber they did in 1870, for the reason that our forests are unable r to meet the normal demand of the i country. This is one of the chief reasons for the shortage of hundreds of 1 thousands of homes. The consumption of wood In this country has been declining because the price has been goJ ing up. The rise in price is due chiefly to the reduction of supply. Our K , virgin timber is almost gone. i “Lumber is essential, a need of the common people. The rich can build i marble palaces, but the poor man de- ■ pends on wood for a home of his own. • Whenever the price of wood restricts home .building, the average man is farced to rent at painful rates, which Is a more expensive way to provide a domicile for himself and family.” i f LIGHTS IN THE DINING ROOM Can Reduce the Gliars by Using Piece of Silk I \ Cloth. How often Is the home-maker per- . plexed because of the central lighting arrangement of the living or dining room? Especially true is this where the fixture Is one of the indirect lighting type, with a globe that is too glar- ! ing to be pleasant.. Silk with either a white or very light ; colored background and all-over design will work magical wonders In softening this glare. When making your selection, whether it be floral, oriental, paisley, or any" of the many other, designs, always choose a silk that will bear out ths color scheme of your room. The predominating hue in jfour lamp-shade-should harmonize with the other decorations. Cut your silk about one inch wider -> all around than the actual measurei ment of the inverted globe which it Is I to covet. Draw a double gathering I string along the edge of the silk, leav- | ing a small margin of material from i the gathering string to the outer edge. | Now place the silk over the inverted ; globe. Draw both ends of the sath- | ering string tight and tie them. Rear Wall Echoes. “Villages have their back-fence gosI sips,” says a New Yorker. “The city i has Its rear walls of apartment ’■ J houses, which are In every way as effective as sharp-tongued busy-bodies ’ i In spreading neighborhood news. In 1 summer when the windows are open these walls act as sounding boards 1 and transmit an amazing amount of I Information. ’ ! “Unlike the village gossip, a rear 1 wall tells the simple truth, never stretching It; but the truth is often i bad enough, I had supposed that the i couple In the flat below mine were "a ; most respectable pair, but now the I windows are open and the rear wall is at work, and I know from certain clicking sounds that a poker game Is running there day and night “Above me dwell another pair who In public seem devoted to each other. The rear wall tells another story. Scraps of conversation come to us that cause us to feel like phoning for the police to prevent homicide. The voice of our janitor, five floors below, comes up to our windows with startling dis-, tlnctness. We know just what he thinks of us. “Somewhere in our house are a pair of newlyweds. They do not know how their turtle-dove cooing is broadcast by that rear wall. It Is well for their peace of mind that they don’t Growing a Foot a Day. During a long drouth In spring in Mauritius a singular spectacle, amid the stretohes of dying and desiccated plants, was presented by the white flowers of giant aloe stems, which sprang up on the mountains and over the waste lands with amazing speed. At the time of flowering, shafts as thick as a man’s arm shot up from the heart of the plants, grew from 12 to 18 inches in 24 hours, and reached a height of 30 feet A cluster of aloes, before the flowers appear, resembles a gigantic asparagus plant Egyptian Tempi**. Owing to the prevailing solar Influence Egyptian temples, certainly In early times and often later, were orientated east and West so that the rising sun at the equinoxes might light up their dark interiors. Indeed, accordtag to the current Egyptian conception, It was the sun god before all others who dwelt in every templet which was regarded a* a small replica of heaven Itself. Thus a favorite description of a temple I* that it 1* “like heaven in It* interior, while Re (the sun god) rises win>i« it. M