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! ! Tkt Barnwell People-Sentinel, Barnwell; 8. C, Thursday, March 7,1935 Fort Into National Monument i Fort Jefferson, Off Florida, Has Glamorous History. Washington. — Fort Jefferson, an abandoned fortress on one of the tiny Dry Tortngas isles off Florida, recent ly turned over by the United States navy to the National Park service, has a history that Is “at once glamorous, tragic, and futile,'’ says the National Geographic society: “The Dry Tortugas He some sixty miles to the west of Key West,, like an afterthought to the main Florida Keys,” continues^the bulletin. ^These Isolated isles are nothing^ oroide than seven low bars of wind-swept shell and coral sand, sparsely covered with email bay cedars and palms, encircled by dangerous reefs, and uninhabited— except for a few faithful lighthouse keepers, and thousands upon thou- •ends of nesting sooty and noddy terns. “The fully hastloned brick and stone walls of Fort Jefferson, on Garden Key, once earned for it the nickname •Gibraltar of America.’ Long obsolete as a means of defense, the hoary •tronghold now has become a nation al monument by Presidential order. Futile Military History. “Despite its resounding nickname, however, the dismantled and decaying Fort Jefferson has played a futile part In military history. Built in 1846, It was supposed to guard the ship lanes between Cuba and- Florida, but even before it was completed the vast citadel was agreed to be a military mistake. It was garrisoned, however, early during the Civil war and held by federal forces throughout the conflict, serving as a prison after 1863. “No enemy gun ever poured shot and shell into its barracks. A Con federate gunboat sailed cautiously with- in range in 1861. hut It was frightened porarily reoccupled by American troops during the Spanish-American war. Since 1900 It has been a ward of the Navy department As a nation al monument it will be open to vis itors. Already a force 6f relief work ers has cleaned up part of the court yard and )s Installing quarters for those who come by boqt or plane and wish to remain overnight Fort Jef ferson is one of tbe least-known bits of American domain, because under navy rtrte it was closed to all visitors, and not even airplanes were permitted to fly over it "The Dry Tortugas possess a great many attractions for fishermen and naturalists. More than 600 varieties of fish abound in the clear waters off its enveloping^reefs, and Bird Key haft long been a national bird and turtle refuge. ;• , “The Dry Tortugas owe the last part of their name to Ponce de Leon, who discovered the islands in June. 1513. Tortuga is Spanish for turtle. The fa mous explorer captured 170 of the rep tiles there to replenish the larder of his ship. In 1565 that sturdy Eliza bethan, Capt J. Hawkins, homeward bound from a profitable voyage in for bidden Spanish waters, visited the is lands. He loaded his pinnace with birds of species that still breed there by thou 1 away when the commander of the fort trained upon the warship his full com plement of guns—scarcely a dozen of which were loadedJ ■, ■ — “Although ft never figured In a mili tary action, the grim old stronghold is no stranger to horror and death. Within Its moated walls yellow fever suddenly appeared In August, 1867. “All officers, including the surgeon, died, and for a time direction of med ical affairs rested with a prisoner. This was the, unfortunate Dr. -Samuel A. Mudd. who had been Imprisoned at the island fort because, when awak ened In the dead of night, at his Mary land home below Washington, he had set the broken leg of a stranger who turned out to be John Wilkes Booth, ^assassin of President Lincoln. Doctor Mudd courageously tended the sick and dying until he. too, was taken 111. He remvomir and,- hecirnse ot his heroic efforts, was granted a full par don* Used in War With Spain. . “Fort Jefferson was finally aban- , doned In 1873, although It was tem- Lake ' Gives Farmer Idea Geneva. N. Y.—Farmer Dell had • great idea. 1 The farmer's’' inspiration, came from a peculiarity of Seneca lake, one of the atate'a most famous beauty spots, ' Tbe lake seldom freezes, despite the fact that surrounding waters, are sheets of Ice. Only In the most severe cold rfpeHs will the lake de velop more than skim ice. Farmer Dell's idea, as he later admitted, was to fill the radiator of his automobile with Lake Seneca water, and save the cost of pur chasing non-freezing agents. ' To his surprise, the water which would not freeze in Lake Seneca turned to Ice so quickly during a zero cold wave that the rgdlator burst in several places. 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PRICES on Genuine Soyer Asplrim Radically Reduced urn AH Siaaa Going, going, gone!—all’the sugar Germany will be permitted to Import Into the United States In 1935, all 79.8 pounds of It! C. W. Cole, auctioneer, is shown turning over the entire bag to B. F. Welch, after several minutes of feverish bidding. The sugar was. purchased by Lamborn and company. New York brokers, at the Northern Sugar Refinery, Frellstedt, Germany, and brought to Chicago for exhibit during the convention of sugar refiners. Plan to Explore Stratosphere by Rockets & Professor to Use Projectiles to Go 150 Miles. Roswell, N. M.—Rockets equipped with automatic recording devices will b£ shot Into the stratosphere to a dis- tanee of from 40 to i50 mtler from the earth’s Surface from an especially con structed 60-foot tower near here this spring In science’s latest attempt to penetrate the secrets behind cosmic rays, light rays and radio waves. The experiments will he the culmi nation of months of work on the part of- Dr.*R. H. Goddard, head of the dc- 0 partment of physics at Clarke univer sity,. Worcester, Mass., who expects they will yield data of gretit value to science. One immediate beneficiary would be radio broadcasting. The tower Is rising In a shallow val ley 25 miles from Roswell. In the StUDYlNC THE BRAIN A stqdent with electrodes connected from bft hfead to thfl apparatns—show ing bow Df. ilsrbsrt H. Jasper, snd Dr. Leonard Cwnalch^el, of Brown university department, of psychology, take “action currents"'froitf the brain. The new apparatus is capable of pho tographing amplified “action currents" tgivsn off by the human brail. meantime Doctor Goddard is carrying out preliminary experiments on a farm four miles from here, aided by a staff of assistants. The Guggenheim foundation is financ ing the unique test*. Roswell was se lected for the-slte of the experiments because of unique atmospheric and cli matic conditions. The type of rocket to be used is 12 feet long rand approximately 2 feet in diameter at its widest point It is equipped w'Tth a parachute designed to be released at the highest point of Its flight. There is no daiiger of the rocket causing Injury, Doctor ‘‘Goddard be lieves, as he calculated it will return to the earth almost vertically, and its flight will be under control from the tower at all times. The tower site is 15 mlltes from the tearest settlement. IT Advantages of the rocket ascensions over stratosphere balloon flight? lie in the fact that balloons, to rise beyond 14 miles, must be of such great size and at tbe same time-such light weight that, construction dangerous to passen gers results, according to Doctor. God dard. He pointed to the fatal outcome of the 72,000 -feet stratosphere as cension of three Soviet Russians; The date of the projected tests will depend on the results of ground experi ments now being conducted here. “There is a long period of testing university students are “almost per- before any practical results -are. cer- 61 at t6i-‘>f,h9JnfifiDLiMBliflY,es tain," Doctor Goddard explained. “We will probably spend several months in the laboratory before any test will be made." 775 UrS. Planes Are Now Equipped With Radios Washington.—A recent survey by the bureau of air commerce shows that there are 775 radio-equipped airplanes in commercial and private operation throughout the United States, whereof 345 are owned by the', scheduled air dines, 246 Installed in private planes, 135 In ships used by Individual firms for business purposes and 49 In craft employed for air taxi and charter flights. Gdverupient-owned aircraft, such as that operated by the army, payy and bureau of air commerce 11- self, mihy of which carry radio equip ment, was not Included In the rfurvey. . A considerable Increase, in the em ployment of alrplane radio among pri vate owners duripg the coming year is anticipated as • result of developments i that have been under way for some 1 1 * ' ' time with the “homing" radio compass. This device enables an airplane pilot to. tune jo. -either on DepaatmeBt -ef- Cotnraerce airways radio stations and course beacons or on regular radio broadcasting stations and fly directly toward them from any point of the compass. « Moon Looks Like Green ^ • ■ a,—;—:—I s Cheese, Asserts Expert ^Washington.—Sweethearts may find romance in the moon, but it’s Just an other, piece of green cheese to Dr. Harry Burton, astronomer at the naval observatory. Doctor Burton views tbe moon through a 26-inch telescope. He said the celestial body Is made of pumice and volcanic ash. Explaining why ,he thought the moon looked like green cheese, the as tronomer said Its upper quarter is full of holes, which are really extinct vol cano craters. This part resembles Swiss cheese. Near the center and the lower half of the orb, he said, the surface Is smoother and a darker, green. This IS caused by the setting sun and shad ows cast by mountains. To Doctor Burton It looks like green cheese mold. 'Find College 8tuderit» , - Honesty Nearly Perfect Delaware, Ohio. — Ohio Wesleyan “From the public health aspect the school program Is distinctly second ary to the effort to control active tu-1 berculosis In the general popula tion," Dr. William Paul Brown says [ In an article on “The School and Tu berculosis," in Hygeia Magazine. “The periodic examination and the contacts of known active cases is much more productive of results in controlling the disease than the | school study of ail pupils. 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