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''NEW DEL FROYERS ^ TO BE POWERFUL Warthipt Will B« Superior to Pr—ent VoMelt. //.' !V- • , i / Washtnsrton.—Th« live Araorlcao de flirojers now under construction will be the fawent and most powerfuti, ves- iels of their class eve.r built in tlie United States, ac(*ordint; to nuvul <»fli riali. These war vessels will have a desifpied si>eed of .‘Ml’A knots, or up prtiv I nun el.V 40 miles an hour, coin- parwl to the prfKeiit..’l.’Vmile simumI of file fi«*el’s ficst destt^i.vef iypes. The new warships will have five five-inch fftins, ooinpared with four U. S. tEADS WORLD IN USE OF PHONES More Than Half of Total U Found^ ii| America. four-inch" truns on.the rapidl.v deter! tl oratin;; destn'.v<‘rs' on the naval list. Ac<*ordin}; t(* Ktar .\<liiiiral II. It l.ari mer, chief of the hureaii of o.ilnaine, the new ,vesi>M‘ls excel the prcseni boats in speed, siahilit>. arniaiitent, jrreater engine pow(*r. aiol seav\or! Ill ness. ^ The new vessels also have eeitter line jrun, and torpedo po^ifions, fhu.- Increasiiiff the field of rtr*‘. jsiwer pp erateil ainiiiuniJlon Imisis, new, fi.;*| control apparatus, and improved toi- pedo control inaehir.er.v. '^yV'hereas the <ild de.slroyers e:iri7 no machine cans at all. the new ones will come.wjiilpi(ed with five .'’lO-caliher and three jtn<*ulitter macliine mins. The liorseftoweKof the new spet^ boat destro.vers wlll^'T^e 41I.S0(l. Their radius of action alshv has lieen en largetl. of the 100 nc“ded h.v tliK^eet to modern'r.e Its destroyer tonrui^^ hut four are hiiildin;;. ftne more w laid down this summer or fall. i Seven others now authorized and and one a|ipro|iriated for were pipeon- holed h.\ President Hooxer. Naval oftieers staled also that an experinrental fl.vlnp boat and a sinple seater pursuit fdane have heen de- velofied wlih-li represent a distinct ad variee oxer earlier J.xpes. The horiih Inp plafn* has four eiipiues and without a load can travel •’..(MMI niil»*s; It can po l.CKKt miles with a load of 4.0<HI p<»un«ls of hiimhs and return. Tlie pursuit plane will haxe a speinl of V!12 miles an Imur. Itritish plan<‘K now In u^ie lor imrsnit wmrk have a maxi mum s{>eed of 214 mil«*s an lumr. Four of the hip fl.vinp l»oafs, known as.-ps- trol planes, xxlll lie hullt next .year, a< eordinp to naval plans. Professors Turn Thumbs Down on Radio Crooners I'xirt Worth, 'rexus, —Thumhs down nn radio rroonv-rs. say 'rexus Chr1s-_ tlofi university fui-ull* memhers. Hadlo rrooners, xxilh their falsetto and loxx’ moaninp soups of love, be long to the Ixviliplil of civilization and not to the im.-dei n xxoild. four profes s«trs apree. “.\nythlnp that has for its niollve the slirrinp of purely priinltlxe In- Kllm ls Is out of dale." one prof<*ssor said. "We ali lik«' to have ovir eiine lions siined o( rasionallx. hut a con stant dose is sickeninp. ■ r.ut the erooiims are not so ha<l as the people raisinp a fuss ahout fl em. A twist Ilf tlie r.oliodial and thex're poMe." A sulutom xxas olfered hv another, w to♦ 1 i<^rihed H le a ppfhp;’ ‘■|;.f’'o < room rs ^iHUi'd he sliof," he pres( riticd. Washinpttiu.—*fliere were .■{ri..‘{.'M1.4rii telephones in the «nl,ire world on .Ian uur.x 1, Itr.l, adf^rdilip to statistics rei.cuily compiled by the American Tel- eplione and Teleprajdi comiiany. It takes some time to se< ure authorita tive data from tlie more remtue coun tries. and January 1. P.ai, is the lat- ' est date for xxhlch x-oiiiparalde infer j Illation Is available in full. ' j The United Slates tlien hud 20,201,- | fiTO telephones, or more than half of the xvorld's t<*tal. The United States j ^ind t'anada topetlier lw«f«%more than i I'vii-e as many teleiiliones as the vvhoh«( oi Uurope. 'Hiirty per cent of tlie ! • orld’s total telephones were in Ku i •ope and 0 per cent were scattered i ..idely about the plohe. Adverse hiisi [ ness conditions slox^ed doxvn the rate i of. telephone prowtli in IlKM) and even ciiyist'd a few countries to lo.se tele phones. Tlie total number of tele plioiies in the world iticreusexl by StVi,- 720 during that year, Tlie Increase of l.'k'I.rirKi telephones in the United States durinp the year exceeded that in any <ither country. Privat* Phone Companies. UrivattHy owned systems operate more than txx’O-tbirds of the xvorld’s telephones. In the United Stales all telephones are operated by private companies. Tills country is not only equipped xvlth more telephones than ail the rest of the xvorld put topether. it is likewise outstandinp In the nnnrti^ of its telephones rclatixe to pope' With iB'Msteleidiones for each luu people, the rehifive prevalence of tele lihi'mcs ill tlie lih4ed States Is m<»re limn eight times tliaTia Kuro|)e. Caa iida. witli 14 lelephoiu^iSper 100 peo pie Is I lie only country wtmse tele pliom. facilities in proiairtlou to pop ulailon approach those of the United Slates. Nexv /.<*aland takes Miird place with 10.2 telephones per 100 people, followed hy Uenmark, with 0.0; Swed en, with 8.7, and .Australia xvlth 8.1 toleplmnes per 100 fieople. Most of the leiephoiies In both Canada and Ihniinark are operated by private com- iiunics. I Argentina Laada in 8. A. (!eniiaii> ranks second to the United States in absolute numher of tele- tdmnes, hut lias only five telephones l»er 100 pexiple. tJreat Britain has 4..’t and France only *J.S. In all three of Ttiese t-mintrles the poverument open ales the telephone system. Arpenliaa, xvlth 2.0 telephones |a*r 100 people, has nearly one-half of all the. tehqdiones '■n South America. Japan and the Uiiluii of Smith .Africa, each with only 1.4 teleplioiies per 100 people, lead in telephone development In .Asia'.and Africa, respectively. 'I'lm small towns and rural sections of .\mcrlra ar«' imtahly well proxided with teloplimie facilities, ('otninutd tics ill this country xvith less than .‘.n.iHMl population each have at tiieir disi'o.sal an axcrage of 12.2 telephones for each loo inhabitants. In Unrojie even tlie larger cities are for the most Less aileq^iiiitelv siiimljed xvlth- lei e|ihoiies tlmn Ihes4- small ,\ineriia coimnunil ies. TO E CLINTON CHRONICLE I f i / ■ v t THURSDAY, JUNE M, 1932 i! B n i 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 i: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Walking Sticks Return I to Favor in London ■■'10 I I.oiidon. — Walking slicks, xvhlrh had fallen from popularity since the war. are l»ack In favor hcpe. More than a million slicks xvere sold for Kasier by Knglish firms. Nearly all were of the crookofd type and ex tremely inexpeiislve, Press slicks np* not so much In fashion noxv. In boom years the more eiXfiensive dri's* slicks sold for as mneh as !R2'>n or SltOO, Noxv they can not he sold for .mme than $10, “Seir Slo< kliolm.- Owfi Country -"Know your own coun try" Is the sloeai' of the Swedish Tourist assoelaiion. xxhlch noxx’ lins neurlv l.'Mi.tsai memhers. Nearly 700.- flUO hookiSeis and hrox'hures _ xvere mailed and 20<» kilometers of ne fialhs and roads xvere added to the kilometers previously oiiened the juasoelatUxu. . - - - - hi^ hy Giant Windmill Towers, Berlin Engineer’s Plan IhM'lln. —Hermann Hcnnef, builder of the plant loxvers of (Jernmn.v's larp est hroadcastinp station, Koenipsxvus lerhausen, has developed aii Idea for H series of inammoili windmills, xvhicti lie claims. If followed out, would sup ply eiiouph eleiMric poxxer for all ot tJermany at a <-ust of one pfennig per klloxvatt hour. lioiuief put his Idea durinp construc tion <if the 2f»tJ-meter radio tower. Ac cording to his desipn, a toxver 270 me ters hiph would lie built, like a radii tower. Oossbars at the top would support horizontally three giant wind wheels, each with a diameter of lOO meters. He declares itint <10 such tow •r*, Rtrateplcully placed ’ thmiiphout (termany, could. In connection with the ejcistlng water power plants, .sup ply the istlre country. j PenntyUmnUuV State Police Conduct School I Juror Wanders Into Wrong Box; Accepted Buffalo,' .N. V.—The wrong Jur or xx'alked Into the xvrong JiiVy box here recently, but he got the Job anyiioxv. * l»ren (1. Both of Kast Ham' burp xxas xvanderinp throiigh the .Supreme i-ourt corridors locKlup' for the Jury drawing par^ ^ He bad re eivexl a sutntiionR for Jiiry •luty. Meanxvhile, a Jurynmfr, was ndsslhg at a firi.OOO damage Ktilt Ixeing t^d In part eight. “.Are yeu by any chain# look log for part eight?" asked a dep uty. “I guess so." said Roth. He was led to part eight'arid' seated In the place-of the rn^inp Jnryinan. The trial eomihencxHl. Then after a while Roth stood up. **I gnow," he said, “that I'm’’ listening to the wrong trial or aonietbiDg,^ hn explained. I.«wyer8 went Into a hoddlc with Justice Hinkley, ^ It waa decided that Roth whs acetptaMe (a both partlesi He wm 4alr iwom and. reaeated. Aa trial vent o^. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Harrls))urg. Pa.^The Penns.vlvanla state police "keep school" each night pn the tri-stnte police teletype sys tera. The pupils are the municipal police men In the station houses linked xvith the telet.vpe transmission system In New Jersey, New York and Pennsyl vania. The lessons* are Instrnotlon In orlm Inal law and criminal proceilure. com piled from llte source of stmly pivef the state policemen In their training sclic>oI here. No examinations are conducted nor grades given, hut results are reported as "satlsfacrory" both to tea chert j and pupils. Mvn Cut When Runaway Tire Crashes Into Store West Newton. Mass.—Philip J. Mc Hugh. twenty-four, was rut by (lying gla<w..when a tire rolled jOtT a passing automobile. Jumped the curb, and cmsh(^ Into a drug itore window hora receqily. glMunatisa C««ta $10,000,000 tibndon. — Rheumatism, the must Orevalent dlaease of clTlUxatioa, coita Great Britain $10,000,000 i\ year. Among its 40,000 annual victinrib, 0,000 die. V I ! 1 '< J Job Printing 1 Delivered Promptly % Let Us Do Your y ^ f- Printing! f // ' *"■ Our Job Printing Department wishes to bring to the attention of every user of job printing a thought on service. We only ask that you give us a trial and see for yourself how prompt our \ service is! / " Because the use of {ninted matter has in creased during the past decade and SERVICE as well as Quality is demanded. 1., We have spent a lot of money in modem and labor-saving equipment in order to keep abreast with progress-and meet these demands. Back of this are years of thoughtful care and study in the art of printing and selection of paper stock. 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