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To Attempt Ijiecord Dive for Study of Marine Life I A? Dr. Beebe Uses Bathysphere for Observations. Washington. ? Dr, William Beebe, floted oceanographlc explorer, will pay another visit to "Davy Jones' Locker" off Bermuda, under the joint auspices of th? National Geographic society and the New York Zoological society. Us ing his steel, air-tight bathysphere, Doctor Beebe will attempt a record dive of half a mile while studying strange underseas life. "Because of Us peculiar coral forma tion and semltropical cljmate, the .Ber muda group is a veritable museum of all forms of fascinating marine life," says n National Geographic society bulletin. "Ebb tide leaves on Bermuda's pink coral beaches spiny starfish. Iridescent Jellyfish, glistening sea bottles, and thousands of beautiful seashells. In Bermuda's aquarium, > one of the finest Institutions of Its kind In the world, more than lfSO different varieties of leal fish are displayed In the ex hibition tanks. Like Vast Aquarium. "More like a vast aquarium than a natural formation are the shallow-wa ter sea gardens ; submerged coral reefs over which visitors drift In glass-bot tomed rowboats. Looking down through the glass and crystal clear water, cor als on the sandy bottom 40 feet below appear deceptively at arm's length. Many varieties of coral grow on the sand Itself among bloated sea puddings and bright orange sponges, while oth ers cling to rocky ledges decorated with swaying weedB. "White coral, resembling spua sugar confectionery, and huge polyp mush rooms, a yard In diameter, grow beside bulbous masses of brown and yellow coral. Lavender fcea fnns of delicate lacework sway below Immense coral antlers. Big, parti-colored parrotflsh browse on algae-covered coral, gnaw ing It off with their tough beaks. The familiar red coral, associated with beads and Jewelery, Is not seen, being a sort of velning Inside other coral. "For th? t?'l .enturous, Bermuda of fers a still mc-e exciting way of ob serving marine life. Putting on a cop per helmet, with attached air hose, and climbing down a swaying ladder into sapphire waves; the diver- finds himself In a mysterious, amazing world. "Oblique rays of sunlight filtering through blue water moke an axure twi light through which one can see only about 50 feet. Blurred shapes drift nearer and evolve Into Incredibly love ly blue and gold angel fish, fins trail ing In long streamers. These fish seem to have become symbolic of Bermuda. Angel fish designs are found In Ber mudlan Jewelry and chlnaware. "Undersea, as If blown by an aquatic wind, everything constantly sways In one direction, pauses, and then re turns. The diver who holds himself rigid, resisting this surge, seems alien to the fish and frightens thero away. If he yields to the swell and is wafted back and forth, the fish accept him and may nibble him curiously. "Hefore the glycerin-coated windows of his helmet drift devilfish, (hipping like birds, swift schools of 'stream lined' mackerel, and occasionally a shark, whose 'reputation as a man eater some scientists think Is unde served. Swarming for Bait. "Jostling each other to get the halt offered them, fish swarm like bees around a diver. Hony-sheUed trunk fish, noisy yellow grunts and striped rlhbonflsh. streak past. Silvery yel low Jacks and thousands of small sll versldes flash In the sunlight. Fan tastic fish resembling small dragons, weave in and out among attenuated needlefish. The cornetflsh, with Its trumpet-shaped mouth, arrives, swim ming as easily backward as forward. I "To watch a submerged coral reef Is to witness miracles. At one mo ment the whole reef Is alive with pul sating, expanding, waving sea crea tures of delicate pastel colors A touch, a splash, or even the shadow from a boat overhead causes a spasm of alarm. In a twinkling every living thing on the reef has changed. Frail anemones contract and withdraw into themselves. Jeweled fish dart Into holes. The banded rockflsh has changed its markings and the spotted flounder that rippled over the sand is now Invisible, having changed color to resemble sand. For a minute the reef remains barren ar.d dulL Then, one by one, fish and anemones take cour age and furtively emerge. "The reason for these lightning Hen* Know Master's Voice, Solve Theft St. Clalrsvllle, Ohio. ? A pair of "one-man chickens," who knew their master's voice, solved a series of chicken thefts In which more than 1,000 fowls were stolen during the last six months. Authorities and owners previous ly had been unable to Identify the birds. On a recent evening 18 chickens were takqn from Mr. and Mrs. William DaUgherty and a short time later a similar number were sold to a Bethesda (Ohio) grocer. Entering the store, > Daugherty called. "Napoleon,"' and a big red rooster fluttered onto his shoulder. Mrs. Daugherty yeilted, "Aunt Mar tha," and . a hen flew to .her arms. After the pet chickens had Identi fied their owners, deputy sheriffs arrested a man who allegedly sold the chickens to the grocefr. changes Is obvious when one realizes the greedy cannibalism of a coral reef. Though resembling' the^ most retiring, sensitive flowers, anemones use their tentacles to seine and paralyze fish. "Light decreases and pressure in creases. the deeper one descend* Into the sea. Doctor Beebe, sealed Into his two-ton drying ball or bathysphere, descending past these surface flah, which are predominantly blue, will en ter a twilight zone, where the fish are largely transparent, and Anally come to rest in a zone of Inky blackness half a mile below the surface. Here the water Is extremely cold, practically without motion, and of such tremen dous pressure that flsh from this depth often burst when brought to the sur face." How Imperial Valley Gets Water Imperial valley ranchers in California are facing their worst and last water shortage on the Colorado river. The photograph shows domestic water being distributed to rural residents of the valley by SERA officials from one of the carloads shipped Into this great agricultural area. Millions of gallons of do mestic water will have .to he shipped into the valley during the present drought period. The water Is being furnished by the Southern Pacific railroad from Ito n.nlln Consumption of Meat Advances Steadily More Than Keeps Pace With Population Increase. Chicago. ? Ment consumption in the United States Is more than keeping pace with poi?u4frt*frfi Increases, accord ing to a statement Just Issued by the national live stock and meat board. In the decade, 1013-lf)22. Inclusive, the total estimated meat consumption TARDY RECOGNITION On August 2, 1862, In a nkirmlnh n?'?r Memphla, Mo,, during the Civil war, N. Kenton Yackey, wa* nhot Ave tlmea. Hp atlll carrle* two of tho balla In hla nlde. Now, fcfter 72 yeara. Yackey haa been decorated foir valor and devotion to hi* country, lie ban Jnat received the Purple Heart medal from the War department. Yackey la ninety-two yeara old, la vice com mander of the O. A. It. In Colorado ? nd Wyoming, and la commander of , the Pueblo poat. averaged 13,509,100,000 pounds nnnual ly, and per cnplta consumption was 131.1 pounds. In the next ten years beginning with 1923 and ending with 1932, th? average annual meat con sumptlon was 10,030,800,000 poundH, and the per capita consumption ad vanced to 140.0 pounds. For the year 1033 the estimated consumption was 17,900,000,000 pounds, and the esti mated per capita consumption 142.9 pounds. The per capita consumption of 142.9 pounds In 1933 was divided as follows, according to estimates: Reef, 54.1 pounds; veal, 7.9 pounds; lamb, 0.9 pounds; pork. 74.0 pounds. These estimated figures show that more meat was consumed In 1933 than In any previous year In the history of this country. The significance of the 1933 consumption figures may be bet ter understond when It Is considered that meat moved Into consumption channels at the avernge rate of 17 tons per minute. Despite this upward trend In meat consumption, the United States Rtlll lags behind four other countries In the per capita consumption of meat. These four countries and their per capita consumption figures are as fol lows; Argentina, , 273.2 pounds per capita ; New Zealand, 252.2 pounds per cnplta; Australia, lftfi.fi pounds per raplta ; Canada, 154 .8 pounds per capita. The board calls Attention to the fact that meat Is the finished product of one of the nation's leading Industrie*. Live stock Is produced on more than six million farms. Approximately 85,500, 00(tfLittle, hogs, and sheep were received Vthe 02 principal live atock markets lflr1933. Meat la processed In more than* 1,400 packing plants and approximately 100,000 retail mest deal era merchandise It to 125,000,000 food consumer*. Find Rare Picture of Lincoln in Junk Shop Hoopeston, 111. ? C. M. Bruflf hns ac quired an unusual photograph of Abraham Lincoln, mnde when the (Jreat Kmanclpntor was s young man. The picture Is classed ss an ambro type and Is produced on glass, with the lights represented In silver and the shadea by a dark hnckground. That method of making photographs was used between the time of the da guerreotype, which was produced on silver, and the time of the ferrotype, I or tintype, which was a photograph I taken on a thin Iron plate. The ambrotype Is much rarer than the other early kinds of photographs. Bruff accidentally came across the am hrotype while calling on a Junk deal er In the vicinity of Vlncennes, Ind. French Mission to Study Easter Island Statues Paris. ? A French ethnographic mis sion on hoard the colonial dispatch boat, Itlgault de Genoullly, ftow In South American waters, will be land ed at Easter Island this summer so that scientists can remain for several months In an effort to trace the origin of the civilization and famed stone carvers of that Isle. The Kegnult de fienoullly, which left Lorlent In March, is now visiting ports In Brazil and Argentina after having called at French African colonial ports. It will round South America and call at Valparaiso before going to Easter Island. The boat will remain but two days at Easter Island, landing Prof. (Hiarles NVatelln of the Paris museum staff and M. Metreau, explorer and alpinist, and members of their party. The navy boat then will go to the Society Is lands, Hawaii, Yap, the Philippines, and to Saigon, where It will be sta tioned. The scientific mission will remain on the Island as long as In necessary to study the BOO rude stone statues and busts there, some of them 70 feet tall. No plans have bven made for the scl enlists* return. London Dowager Tak?s Own Chair Out Shopping t London. ? Out of a gorgeous llmou slnce at one of the entrances of liar rod's department store the other day stepped a generously proportioned dowager, followed by a stately chauf feur bearing a white enameled bath room chair. On she sailed magnificently until she came to n counter where bargains struck her fancy, when the chair was set In position for her oomfort, with the chauffeur standing at attention. Then on to the next connter, and so on, the chauffeur carrying the whlt? chair through the throng of shoppers and every now and then placing It by some counter In response to ?n Im perious "Chair, John." BRISBANE THIS WEEK Hindenburg Sleeps Important Stork News Building Happiness Mr. Green Sees Danger Through miles of tlamlng torches Ilindeohurg was carried to his grnve. No representatives of the llohenzol lerns appeared. The tilted States sent a wreath. The ceremony began with the funeral march from Beetho ven's Third Symphony. "Erolca," writ ten In honor of Napoleon. Services to honor Hlndenhurg's memory were held In various churches here. New York's Governor Lehman sent to the Zlon Evangelical Lutheran church a tribute eulogizing Hindenburg as "a great soldier and statesman." Italy reports that the stork will soon have the honor to bring another little Mussolini to the dictator's house hold. This delights the Italian nation and causes more general Interest than would the arrival of quintuplets In any royal family. If that new baby In herits Its father's qualities, It may play an Important part In the world. It Is officially stated also that the widow of Chancellor Dollfuss will soon have Interesting news for the Austrian people. Dictators come and go; the stream of babies, fortunately, never ceases, and there Is hope In every one. At "Two-Mountain Chalet," "a beau tiful lodge cradled among the Rocky mountains," Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt had dinner- after driving 125 miles through Glacier National park over the Great Divide. After dinner, In a broadcast speech, the President Bald many things of Interest to the people of the United States. lie said, In the first place, that "the stealing of the public domain Is fin ished." That Is most encouraging. The President says the nation has entered "an era of building, the best kind of building ? the building of great public projects for the benefit of the public and with the definite objective of building human happiness." Mr. Green, head of the American Federation of Labor, warns the gov ernment that it must do something for the 10,000,000 Idle. If It does not act swiftly, Mr. Green says, "so ciety may take over the means of pro duction." What Is "society?" President Roose velt's government has already "taken over the means of production," taking charge of Industries, payrolls, shops, farms, spending public money by the billion In an earnest, sincere effort to restore prosperity by financial artifi cial respiration. Constantlne, Algeria, reports bloody, fatal rioting between Mohammedans and Jews. More than 20 Jews wero killed, many Injured. An Arab mob, armed with blackjacks, revolvers and "Arab knives," Invaded the city's ghetto, "setting fire to houses and dragging Jewish men, women and children Into the streets, to stab and beat them." Mild earthquake shocks have gently rocked the coast of Maine recently, but nothing cataclysmic happened. Windows rattled, pictures were found out of pluinb on the walls. That la an old country and the rocky coast has probably done Its Important "set tling down" In ages long past. Some of our best minds, that have been shipping dollars and securities to Canada for safe keeping, out of the reach of our "radical, confisca tory" government, will shudder read ing the speech of Harry Stevens, Ca nadian minister of trnde and com merce. This gentleman says "big business," innde up of "unscrupulous financiers and business men," exploit ed Canada's consuming public, starved her producers, sweated her workmen, gouged her pulp, paper and other In dustries and left her with a choice of reform, dictatorship or revolution. Earl Rentty, admiral of the Rrltiah fleet, hns common sense. He thinks Britain should regulnte her own na val strength, decide questions of de fense for herself, not aRklng opinion or permission from other countries. Many Americans feel the same about their own national defense, and won der why a people o'f 128,000,000 should be less Independent than Washington's U. S. A. of 4,000,000. Otlnje, Jugoslavln, reports a farm er stoned to death by villagers who saw him using a toothbrush and con cluded that It was "a magic wnnd for practicing witchcraft." Unfortunately for the victim, he whs seen using the "strange Instrument that he carried" Just after a cow had ceased to give milk, two dogs had gone mad and the son of the richest man In the village had eloped with a gypsy girl. Vincent Plsano, only twenty, hirad a room on the top floor of a quiet Brooklyn hoarding house, retired there with his friend, Oresto de Roberto, twenty-one. Roth were racketeers, both were hiding, both were "on the upot." Hiding did no good. Two gunmen came down the sky light, shot Plsano five times In the abdomen, put several bullets In I>e Roberto's head. Roth young men had police records, had been tried Hnd con victed and let out. Organised crime usually "gets Ita man." Kin* FVMuro* Synriloata, Iim. WNU S?r*l??. National Topics Interpreted by William Bruckart Washington. ? Word hns reached treasury circles In Washington indi . eating some feur Depositors amoni! residents of Protected the drouth area that the prolonged dry period and Its attendant effect on con ditions may cause some fresh trouble among banks. I Inquired anions offi cials of the Federal Deposit Insurance corporation concerning those condi tions, and I have assurances that there Is little, If any. danger of new banking difficulties. Furthermore, the officials reminded me that even If new troubles should arise nearly all of the depositors In the distress communities are protected under the bank deposit guarantee law. In reporting these assurances I do not mean to Imply that every hank In all parts of the country hns Insurance coverage for Its depositors. Hut the scope of the Insurance corporation membership Is so broad that It Is al most possible to describe It as com plete coverage among the small banks. The corporation figures show that 97^ per cent of all depositors whose Indi vidual accounts are less than $2,500 per person are protected by tbe Insur ance. Something like 05 per cent of all of the banks In the country are members of the Insurance pool. The significance of these figures cnn not be minimized. For example, a re cent bank failure In Illinois was cared for by the Deposit Insurance corpora tion and It paid 99 per cent of tbe number of depositors with a total of $125,000, a figure that was exactly half of the total deposits In the bank. That Is to say that only 1 per cent of the number of depositors In the bank had accounts In excess of $5,(?00 each ? the maximum Insured under the temporary fund ? but the total of these larger ac counts was equal to the total depos its of the other 99 per cent of the In dividuals having accounts with that Institution. With respect to the fear that has been Indicnfxl In the drouth-stricken communities. was explained that many individuals thought there would be a repetition of conditions several years ago when th<- small banks were unnble to realize on loans and short time credits extended in the same areas. The depression made It impos sible for many borrowers to repay. The officials told me, however, that the conditions now are somewhat dif ferent. They pointed out. for exam ple, that many of the distressed farm mortgages hitherto privately held are now in the hands of the government and that the home loan bank system has been doing the same sort of thing for owners of residences In towns and Cities. This naturally hns alleviated some of the stress on the local banks. It Is true, of course, that many of the banks hnve extended credit on what normally would be Round bases, and that the drouth and Its conse quent destruction of crops will cause some loans to be uncollectible at tills time. But the point Is that the strain Is not so great as It was early In the depression and officials here generally believe that tho banks will pull through with the very minimum oi' failures. / ? ? ? It Is a eurforis coincidence, however, that this new fear of banking trouble In the drouth areas Nebraska should urlse at a Experiment time when the state of Nebraska Is Just closing out Its 25-year experiment with a state bank deposit guarantee law. The Nebraska experiment was by no means successful. Its life was very short. Nevertheless, It has taken that state almost twenty years to clean up the wreckage that resulted from an attempt to Insure nil deposits within the limited Jurisdiction of one state. It is to be recalled that during con gresslonal debate on the federal law much argument was advanced against enactment of the national Insurance law on the bawls of the failure of the numerous state attempts. The answer apparently lies In the fact that condl Hons In one state may he bad from an economic standpoint, or they may be bad In several states, but It Is sel dom that the whole United States suf fers conditions of a character that re sult In widespread wreckage of banks. Another strength which officials of the Federal Deposit Insurance corporation see In their own law Is that no at tempt Is made to guarantee all depos its. As heretofore Raid, the limit Is $5,000 for any Individual account. While that limitation does not protect the holders of great amounts of cap ital it Is sufficiently high, according to the stftdlcft by the Insurance corpora tlon to provide for Immediate repay merit to at least 97 per rent of the Individual depositors In this country The federal corporation has more than $400,000,000 at Its command upon which It can draw Immediately for payment to depositors In case of any bank fnllure. It Is ridiculous to as sutne that this amount would be sufll clent to meet any such debacle as or curred In 1982 and early 1933, yet If ought to he said that a great many of the banks which closed their door* durln* those black days would not have been so affected had there been funds available fo pay off depositors In tbe hanks that closed early In those des perate times. There are many Washington ofiaerv *rs who still hare their fingers crossed as to success of the deposit Insurance plan. They look upon It as placing a premium on unsound hank ing. I think no one can doubt the psychology of this guarantee In eases where hank managers really desire to he crooked. They can feel obviously that their depositors will be protect ed for the most part and If they "bleed" their bank the wrath of the bulk of the citizens In a community will be dissipated obviously by prompt repayment of their deposits from the federal corporation. These observers contend further that the federal law has not ha$l an opportunity for a real test. It Is their thought that a period of five years or more will be required to gain an Idea of how the machinery Is going to function. It is to be noted that there has been no assessment levied on the banks which nre mem bers of the pool thus far beyond the original cash contribution for the membership purchase. The te?t will come, therefore, when the ?400, 000.000 l/ATftd. has been exhausted and the banks which are members of the pool must ngaln dig up funds to replenish the larder. ? ? ? Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota, a Republican Independent, is on record with the Nye Predicts prediction that a New Party new political party Is bound to come, and that he believes It Is now gaining rapid headway. The senator was not quite specific in his declaration, how ever, because he gave the Impression that he recognl7.es many of the prob lems confronting organization of a third party. He has shied away from campaigning for Republican regulars seeking senatorial seats this fall and to that extent has definitely put him self in the position to be active in auy t; 'rd party movement. The thing which Senator Nye and other Independents on the Republican side are dodging Is President Roose velt's direct action In drawing from liberal members of both Republican and Democratic aflillatlon. It Is re garded by political students here as quite obvious that only a few of the Republican Independents ever will stay put In a party organized as they bellere Mr. Roosevelt to be organizing a new party. It Is the old story of new party ambitions existing In too many spots. They exist among Re publicans now in the Nrwth ?uid the Northwest and in some sections of tho Middle West, and they exist among the radical wing of the Democratic party In some sections of the South and In most parts of the Middle West. Rut as far as Washington Information goes there are few points upon which these various groups are yet able to agree. Old line Republicans and the con servative wing of the Democratic party are paying little attention, how ever, to the threats of party defec tion. Those with whom I have talked apparently rely on history as the basis for the conclusion thnt the current political uprising will die down In due time. ? * ? Many "efficiency experts" are ap pearing In the New Deal governmental agencies and the FederalClerks heads of clerks are Lose Jobs beginning to fan. The process of sep arating workers from the federal [my* roll always Is a difficult proposition and so the efficiency experts are mov ing very slowly. Rut authentic re ports Indicate there will be a sharp reduction In the government payroll shortly after election. It seems pos sible that a few will Join the ranks of tho unemployed even before election but the number Is likely to be incon sequential according to the informa tion I have obtained. The appearance of the efficiency boys, however, has started many Washington correspondents on the trail of something deeper. While none of them, as far as I know, have been able to learn definite and Irrefutable Information as to plans, there Is no doubt In their minds that the payroll reduction presages something In the way of tax legislation In the next congress. Mow far It will go or what new taxation methods may result. It Is of course, too early to tell. \ One of the best proofs of this Is tho recent statement by Senator Carter Olass, the Virginia Democrat who so long has been an outstanding figure In the senate oil financial questions. Senator (Mass said In a speech, and said It with emphasis, that "there Is n pay day coming." ffe amplified his remark only to the extent of saying that the tremendous rate of spending eventually has to be checked and that If the credit of the federal government Is to be maintained, provision for re tirement of the great public debt ? now In excess of OH) must ' be made very soon. Ft Is thlft question of expenditure th.it Is causing alarm among so many business Interests anil Senator Glass called attention to that. Unless con gress resorts to a sales fax of n gen eral character, It Is obvious that busi ness must carry the brunt of the tax burden. The sentiment of the last congress and several prior to that one hns been directly opposed to the sales tax. Tax legislation appears certain to be n bone of hot contention In th* next congress. ft. Waatftrn 1fn<<m.