The Syracuse Journal, Volume 19, Number 38, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 20 January 1927 — Page 2

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f Whippet raring is the latest tad of the screen stars in Los Angele*. Pauline Starke and Matt Moore are shown tart in g dogs ip the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer championship race.

Arctic Rodeos ll' I - Very Attractive

Unde Sam Conduct* Reindeer Show* in Alaska— Sport Exciting. s Nome. Alaska.- Week* after Mate fairs are history the annual arctic rodeos, or great reindeer exp-jsl twins, become big events at Kobtik. W|'b.;te Mounts n syw»rvik. Akiak si,” 1 within a day's drive; < ■ Non e und St. Michael. (■These relndrer rodeos, which for pic t ur»*sq uetiCKk. skill of exhibition and itopulartty equal the roundupsf of the western cowboy country, oftetr draw IO.OIM natives with many miners and troopers. I Not a horw*. steer, saddle or pun enters in < unique .program. (yet races, contests and prixe-winning entries encourage much spirited cotnpe tftion. J The arctic fairs are staged ■ under the auspices ff the United States i bureau of »>dm-ptlon for thenatlve* of imrtliwextern Alaska to advance, ipriinurily the reindeer industry. The rotleoe. usually held In January. February and March. add unlimited stimulus to lie reindeer business and develop peen Is terext amohg Eskimo herders, and herd owners Contest* Held. Prizes are (awarded in contests, a* rttclng. roping, herding, driving. Create-: ami perfection of equipment. All affairs pertajntng to reindeer are dis-. and .government representatives advise pn marketing and improving the breed of stock. In the sport* division of these shows Interest Is encouraged, in raying Award* are .made for short and long distance -rstcfa. sp*e*l and efficiency ip Slaughtering, handling of tandem teams and wed*. breaking to hapless wild deer, (sriowshoe running yrhll«* driving reindeer, budding of sled.<i and harness. Sew ideas are examined with a vlew to pasting the good things on to neighbors. A huge circus tent pitched oi th« level frozen surface of a river nerves as sleeping quarters for visiting reindeer barons- snd to house the exhibits The spread of canvas is in Itself a big attraction tja the Eskimos, who liken

< Hurls Canned Good*; Bandit Is Driven Out O Omahg. Neb.—A barrage ,of ° canned goods and glass bottled e pickles which greeted a youth- £ ful and somewhat nervous biano dlt who tried to bold up i'theJ manager and two clerks In a O local grocery. proved ;nore | efc factual i than the youth's gung tire and the bandit reo treated empty handed. Arg thur Rubin. the proprietor, was 5 first to'hurt cans at the g when hie ordered “stick up your o hands. 1 The bandit fired <>nce x at Rubin, when one of tbe clerks S began throwing bottled jkxyda at g him. The bandit fired five shots d at Ms : second attacker. all of X which went wide, and tied. The g man escaped but tbe day's reX ceipts w ere saved.

HARD WORKING MINER GOES BACK TO FARMER HUSBAND

' < Woman Masquerades as Man for Years, Being Employed in Various Kinds of Work; Mandan. N. D.—Masquerading as a man for years, during which time she worked ab a hotel clerk, cement worker. miner and rodeo rider, ended for Mrs. Dorothy Hailing when ah* Joined her husband on a form near Price/ n. d. : j Her s*x was revealed when she cashed a check without having sufficient ftwte in th* hank. She made good the amount and paid a fine, but police were suspicious. Discovery followed. i 1 Mrs. Hailing was known as “Bob" Wiisoe. She didn't like form life. “Why. I’ve been wearing men's clothes and working as a, man for years.” she told th* police. "Men's clothes cost m lo* less than girl’s

It to a mammoth igloo of the happy hunting land. They come each year, and every serts.-n are Just as much awed by the swinjging stretches of doth and the scores of glittering electric lights. Last year the first prize in sled’ construction was one with no bolts in Joints or mortises, each being wrapped with whalebone instead of rawhide or sinew. The sled Weighed 50 pound*, with a capacity strength of half a tou. The long-distance contest is a tenmlle round trip. The deer start away like bullets last season's record being 37 minutes in a field of 24 entries. Reindeer's Drawing Power. One sled reindeer made a polling test by drawing on level snow a sledg** laden with 2.300 pounds of sacked sand. In voting for prize winners of harness, sleds or reindeer products the. ten judges stand with their backs to the exhibits. They turn slowly around one by one, each pointing at their particular choice while a government official records it. '» A peculiar rule; tn racing require* that the driver must bring his rein deer in to the start ng point. If the animals balk at pulling the sled and driver, then the driver in turn hauls in the shackled animal. Contestants striving against such odds create an immense amount of comedy that adds as much fame to the luckless one as is accorded great American mbyte stars. Other stunts ojf great interest to these Industrious Eskimos is tying cargo onto a sled; new ways of attaching harness to tbe animals and

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Johannes Wirtanen, prohibition director of Finland, who Is here studying United States methods of enforcing the prohibition law. When this photograph was taken be was testing a bottle of beer in regard to Its alcoholic content.

1 — travel with my husband and get Jobs along with him. Pre been wearing men's clothes ever since I was a little girt. I like them." She and her husband worked together in copper mines at Butte and Anaconda. Mm said. Mrs. Hailing, twenty-two. exhibited newspaper clippings and pictures telltog of prices woo by the “boy wonder" riding bucking bronchos and steers at rodeos. “I've had lots of fun out of life, anyway." she said. .Charmed Albino Buck Killed After 5 Years Bellefonte. Pa—Pre-season predictions that this would be the greatest year for deer in Centre county, now appear Justified. and if "banters' luck" continues on A par with the first few divs the seasilfi the fouel Mil i

* Woman’s Prayers Spur * on Crew; All Saved * 9)C ♦ * .Norfolk, Va.—A woman s faith * * in prayer maintained the morale * * of the crew of ten men of the * * schooner Edna M. McKnight of J * Boston, while it was sinking 160 * * miles off Virginia capes. Mrs J * A. Loesche, wife of the schoon- * J er’s master, and the crew were * * brought here after they had ♦ i been rescued by the -British * * steamer Badner. The men at- * * tributed their rescue to her com- $ * sorting words and prayers while * * they were .working frantically at * * the pumps from Sunday to Tues- * * day with the ship- partially sub- * * merged. J

trick manners of hitching tandem. The principal products of the industry are'reindeer robes, leather goods, calfskins for coat linings, moccasins, reindeer meat, milk and cheese, tallow and sausage, hot dogs and pemrnican, and various articles carved from antlers and fresh bones. Since the herding of deer has been popularized the Alaska natives of the tundra are wealthy and surrounded with, comforts. Many are gradually assuming civilized methods of living, using wooden and stone houses with electric lights, eating much the same food as the white p< filiation -at the coast towns. Build Big Planes New York. —Two monster airplanes intended for regular transatlantic flights are being built in Germany, the German railroads information office announces. Long Engagement London. —After an engagement lasting 25 years. John Wiisher and Mary Marshall were married at a Clapton church in London.

will run for /ahead of last year's aggregate of .W A hunting party of He£la. which brmght to earth a big albino buck, to confident It Is the animal which has played hide and seek with so many hunters for four or five years. Doaens of shots had been fired at It . but the buck seemed to bear a charmed life as It was never even brought to Its knees. When they skinned the buck they found mute evidence of numerous punctures of the hide by bullet wounds, but none of them had been placed in a vital spot. With all the bucks that have been killed during the first three days, only one deer has been .brought to Bei'efonte as an Illegal Mil. and the man who shot it biamee it on an attack of rheumatism. Find Monster Teeth Tucson. Arts.—ln the beu of a dry lake, near Quitovaquita. on tbe Mexican line, have been found.tbe teeth of an ancient monster. Three of the teeth are reported to measure 13 inches to length.

THE SYRACUSE JOURNAL

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Modem Jerusalem Shows Great Changes ,

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War Hero and S. A. Commissioner

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Sergeant Alvin York of Tennessee, famous World war hero, congratulating Commissioner William A. Mclntyre on his promotion, to commissioner of the southern states. York is interested in Salvation army work und will give Mclntyre many valuable tips.

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Here is eleven year-old Donald Avery of Daytona-Ormond beach in Florida with the skate sail which he devised to carry him swiftly over the hard sand on roller skates. His Idea has been adopted by many other youngsters.

SHORT ITEMS OF INTEREST

More than half the people In the United States still have names British origin. . The discovery that IT drops of Mlier, and not 18, were Med tn elosing a can. saved an OH company $40,000 In one year. Shaving by means of pumice stone, vhe custom in pre-Roman days, is still the only method allowed In some men-

About 5.000 words are added to our language every year, says Dr. F. EL Vlsetelly. prominent lexicographer. After jerring 46 years on the London & Southwestern railway of England. Frederick Spencer recently retired. Tourists from the United States to Europe in 1924 spent a sum estimated at £70,000.000, the Hotels _ _ • reports.

SPANISH ATTACHE

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An especially posed portrait oi Commander A<|olphe H. de Solas o1 the royal Spanish navy, Spanish naval attache in the United States.

. QUEEN OF CARNIVAL

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Miss Mary Cross, who will be queen of the Banff winter carnival for 19261927, which takes place in the week oi February 5 to 12. Miss Cross is a niece of Col. James F. McCloud of the northwest mounted police, who founded McCloud. Alberta, in 1874.

Proof of Progress The breaking of records is a step toward the progress and development of men. and fs an indication that human capability expands. The holders of records are the bearers of a banner showing that men progress and develop.—Tokyo Asahi. Heat Hard to Imagine Heat that reaches tbe earth from the sun Is sufficient in a day to melt a cake of ice 5.000 feet thick and tbe Mse of the state of Massachusetts.

GOOD ROADS

WINTER WEATHER SOFTENS SURFACE;

Nearly every one has noticed how much softer a road surface is in thespring than it is in the fall or summer. In many cases gravel-surfaced roads are softened to such an extent that Jhe wheels of the traffic passing over Athe road cut through the gravel and *7into the clay soil below. Much of the 4 gravel is pounded down Into the clay and the clay in turn comes to thesurface of the road. It only requires a few repetitions of this to do away with the tine riding qualities pf a gravel-surfaced road. The clay soon predominates and during wet weather the road surface is sticky and tends to be slippery rather than possessing the qualities of gravel. Years ago it was thought that a certain road could not be successfully graveled because the gravel would sink down through the clay. It had been graveled a time or two and the gravel always disappeared. The trouble was that the layer of gravel placed, j upon the road was too thin, and when wet, spring weather came, the wheels i. 2 cut through the gravel crust on top of tlje clay and forced the gravel Jnto the clay. This same road has now been successfully graveled for years and the only thing necessary was to pq£_on a sufficient thickness of gravel to sustain the weight of the traffic? If one will consider what takes place during the winter when freezing , weather .comes, it is easy to see why roads are softer in the spring. If the fall is wet the gravel freezes When considerable moisture is present. This < water turning to ice expands, forces the soil particles apart, and when this ice melts in the spring the particles are not Compact as they had been, bqt are left loose because of the so-called “heaving” of the road due to freezing. This expanding effect of the frozen moisture'extends as deep as the frost line, which, in this latitude, is about two and one-half feet in an ordinarywinter. When the roads .thaw out* in the spring, therefore, the soil particles are loose and must htgain be compacted by the action of- hoof and wheel.—EL B. House, .Professor of t’ivii and Irrigation Engineering, Colorado Agricultural College.

Highway Vision Blocked ‘ I by Ungodly Billboards Preservation of the beauty of the countryside may be an important argu- ! ment against the billboards that line the highways. But just hs strenuous an argument is their danger to motorists. Even those signs that display a picture with just a phrase or so threaten an accident when they are placed at corners to hide approaching automobiles from view. 4 But the greater danger lies in the i long-winded billboards that some advertisers seem to think are better sales seducers than their more or less silent | brethren. What actually happens is that either they're not read at all by the fast-passing motorist, or he drives unwarily into an accident. i Telling the history of an approaching town, or even flaunting a verse of the Scripture in the face of Sabbath | desecrating motorists, may be considered beneficial and a mental stimulus, but they're ho help to- the motorist if I he strikes the curve at which they're placed at a 40-mile-an-hour gait, or . runs pell-mell into a post. Curves or crossings are wonderfully attractive locations for billboards from an advertising viewpoint, but highly calamitous from the motoring angle. For safety, therefore, evVn more than beauty, lining the roads with * billboards should be restricted. Giant Road Improvement Plans for the Future The nation's road program for the last four years should result In the improvement to some degree, of about i 160.000 miles of highways before 1930, according to T. H. McDonald, chief of the United States road bureau. These I figures are based on accomplishment* ; by national, state and local departments in the past. The annual ex- : penditure will average well over sl,- ■ 000,000.000. “The American Road Builders' asso- ■ ciation has given new incentive to the building of good roads and it is very probable that reports at the 1927 con- > vention of that organization will show i much progress in actual construction,” ; he added. “The government encour- ; agement to road construction is evidenced by the continuation of the 575,000,000 annual appropriation for 1927 and rhe consideration given a bill authorizing this federal aid expenditure for 1928 and 1929.” Reduce Accident Toll The increasing number of accident* to tourists at highway grade crossings has led to the adoption of a policy looking to the elimination of such dangerous crossings wherever practicable on federal aid roads. The policy, which has met with the general support of the states, is that all existing grade crossings on the federal aid highway system shall be classified and the improvements shall be. carried out as rapidly as practicable. The railroads also have agreed to this policy. Motor Car Stimulus From now on the good roads movement will be the principal stimulus in the continued growth in the use of motor ears. More good roads in general. several continuous transcontinental highways, and wider roads In the congested sections of the country, are the great needs. In these directions the most valuable work can be accomplished. About 495.000 out of the 3.002,916 miles of highways in the • United States are now hard-surfaced ■