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The Barnwell People-Sentinel. Barnwell. S. C, Thursday, July 11, 1935 .a. -r-^: Ships Have Mirrored Culture of Their Era Far Cry From Normandie to the Dugout Canoe. v - Washington.—When the Normandie, largest ship afloat, steamed Into New York harbor, another thrllUAg chapter was written In maritime history. H^r quick crossing from Havre' to New York, her air-cooling SystemTlt- luminated glass decoration, Immense swimming pool and scores of other outstanding features will satisfy the modern traveler’s craving for speed, size, and luxury. “In every age, ships have mirrored the culture of their era," says the Na tional Geographic society. “It’s a far cry from the stream-lined Normandie to what was probably the first boat, a tree trunk to which a savage clung. Transitions from a log, to a dugout canoe, to a boat made of planks calked with pitch were made early In civilization. Soon armored Vikings In their sturdy boats of rivet ed, overlapping oak timbers rode the green combers of stormy, northern seas, and the oars of long, low galleys flashed In the sunny Mediterranean. Many of the galleys scudded along un der a square sail, but they were pro pelled chiefly by the efforts of weary slaves. Galley slaves persisted as late as l&M), when captives still manned the ships of Barbary pirates. In the Middle Ages. “The Phoenicians, first sailors to ex plore the full length and breadth of the Mediterranean, modified the galley. Afraid of being swamped by following seas breaking over It, they raised the stern of the craft. “During the Middle ages, the desire to travel longer distances led to the abandonment of oars for, the crowded sails of the Spanish and Portuguese galleons. In galleons, the high stern reached exaggerated heightk. These picturesque but clumsy craft were built primarily to transport large quantities of gold and other precious spoils, not fo* speed. “Built for rougher waters and to chase fleet schools of fish, northern boats were sturdier and swifter. Some of the boats which darted like wasps around the ponderous Spanish Armada were tin small, fast boats of English fishermen. “Since the time of Alfred the Great England has maintained a navy to pro tect her from attacks by sea. That the king's ships meant business is shown by the fact that until the end r- the Eighteenth century, their Inte riors were painted red to make_~tbe bloodshed, in naval battler less obvi ous, s— > “After Vasco da Gama sailed around tife Cape of Good Hope and reached the Malabar coast, fleets of East In- diamen began sailing out to India. The ships carried ‘JO or 30 guns, were mas sive and rather slow. \' . . “Ships built to run to the West In dies. on the other hand, were faster, because they carried what cynical cap tains referred to as ‘perishable car goes’—fruit, and slaves packed in •spoon-fashion’ below decks. Trade in slaves, opium, and tea, as well as gold rushes, led to rivalry amopa .Ajperit* 0 and English 'shipyard**!!! building large, fast sailing ships. These found their climax In the clipper ships, the first of which was built In Baltimore about 1890. Most of the ctf|>pers from New England shipyards carried tea from China, or gold seekers to San Francisco and Australia. Dramatic Rivsr Races. -“With the opening of the Suez canal and the growing use of steamboats, the popularity of clipper ships waned. In 1807, Robert Fulton's Clermont steamed up the Hudson at five miles an hour, while a man on Its deck ran about listening. Wherever a hiss told of es caping steam, he stopped np the leak with molten lea4- By 1818, steamboats reached the Great Lakes, and by 1832 they moved np the westernmost tribu taries of the Missouri, carrying pio neers Into the great Northwest Fuel ing these wood-burning boats was a problem, as cottonwood trees near the banks made poor fires, and to suw wood inland meant risking attacks by Indians. “In the latter part of the Nineteenth century, over 2,000 steamboats regu larly plied the Missouri, Mississippi auu Ohio rivers. From 1850 until the Civil war the winding reaches of the Mississippi resounded with - splashing paddle-w’heeis. Rivalry was intense between passenger steamboat captains, who engaged in races as dramatic as those between clipper ships. Steam boats dashed past each other, furnaces stuffed with tar and resinous wood belching flames that lit up the night Dog Beggar Accepts Only Good Nickels Paula Valley, Okla.—Plug nick els aren’t good enough for Jack, blueblood bird-dog owned by Ed gar LOng, local hardware merchant With the bird seaaon over Jack, to earn a living, becomes a pan handler. He treads the streets ' of Paula ^Valley with a paper sack dangling from his teeth begging merchants from door to door to drop in a nickel so he can bay meat \Shopkeepers try to dissuade the -English aetter with .pennies, plugs and washers but he won’t ac cept them. The donation most be a nickel and It cannot go' Into his ■ sack until he examines it When Jack acquires a nickel he goes Immediately to a nearby meat market enters the front door, ap proaches the meat case qjid points, true bird-dog fashion, to the meat he wants Butchers have learned not to “short weight" the dog nor to sell him tough steaks. He detects dis crepancies as readily^ as does a housewife and refuses to trade with short weight artists skies In one famous race, when fuel gave out, stateroom partitions; behches, and even fine furniture fed the boiler fires of the winning ship. - v “Although primarily a sailing packet that used its sails most of the voyage, and steam only part way, the Ameri can ship Savannah is generally credit ed with being the first steamship to cross the Atlantic. In Its wake came a long line of ocean-going liners J)uilt in rapid succession and culminating in the present crown of modern mari time achievement, the Normandie.” SEE SPIRITS OF CRATER VICTIMS One First Lady Greets Another Ghostly Visitors Bring Fear to Japanese. Curling up In the stroke which rises from the crater of Mlhara, Japan's famous suicide volcano, the ghostly Images of three girls were seen by terror-stricken villagers on the Island of Oshima. Remembering that Mlhara rose to fame aa 4 lov ers’ death tryst-following suicides of three-lilgfi S$hool girls, the'villagers said the specter of the girls was an 111 omen. Frightened, Ihe superstitious said the volcano’s “nushL” (master) was about to “rise from the land of fire” to lure visitors to “jigoku” (the abode of the devil). Three days later visitors from Tokyo, Just across the bay, swarmed to the Island, partly out of curiosity and' partly because It was Sunday and Kie Island’s natural beauty and warmth attracted them. At 10 :30 a. m. about 100 spectators were gathered on the spot from which persons committing suicide plunge to their death. Suddenly a young man, scarcely twenty-five, ran forward and flung himself headlong Into the crater. As the spectators, -horrified and speechless, looked at each other, another man, a few years older, came out from the throng and, without saying a word, walked as though in a trance and dropped Into thfe fiery pit. Nervously the spectators moved away, afraid that some unseen hand might puli them into the smoldering nferno. Suddenly another youth, about twenty-three, ran to the edge of the crater, stripped himself of his kimono and, with nothing on ex cept aborts, stepped oyer the brink Into the world beyond. Hardly had the talk of those sui cides dle(l down when, two days ater, three more men flung thenn selves into the fire-emitting abyss, one after another, as many specta tors looked on. The police have decided that here after all visitors to the Island win be questioned before being permitted to land. Those suspected of suicide In tentions will be barred from landing. All vialtors must buy round-trip fares. v Officials of the home office, in Tokyo are frankly pessimistic. Last year more than 800 persons lost their Uvea In Mlhara’s crater despite every effort- to put a atop to the suicide craze. The crater la seven miles trotind arfd it Is not htnnonly possible to net-ln this vast territory as have been other sukide-frystlng placet. Qu;ck jaQ Rch.-f I ^ IS Wash Fm** SI. SI AS, «1AS| rtrlpM »r+- abnink aad wmforlaad. Bora: IL”11.4*. - CHAMBUEB, OA. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt Is here seen welcoming to Washington Mme. Albert Lebrun, wife of the president of France. The distinguished visitor was a guest at the White House. Weather Bureau Will Watch Hurricanes Three Posts Opened to Render Better Service. Washington.—The big chiefs of the United States weather bureau have moved to'divide up the responsibility for forecasting hurricanes. Tdo often, it appears, has the hur ricane service, centralized in Washing ton, been caught napping on the ad vent of a hurricane arising in the dis tant Caribbean. To secure quicker and more accu rate forecasts the Agricultural depart ment asked congress to appropriatj $80,000 for the weather bureau to es tablish hurricane forecasting outposts at New Orleans, Jacksonville and San Juan, Puerto Rico. E. B. Calvert chief of the hurricane service, has already charted the storm region for allotment amotig the three stations, as follows: New Orleans—Covering the Gulf of MARINES’ AIR BOSS Mexico and the gulf coast west of longitude 80 W. • Jacksonville—Atlantic eoast south o' latitude 35 and the gutf and Carlbbea » areas not otherwise assigned. San Juan—Caribbean sea and Islands east of longitude 75 and south of lati tude 20. In addition Jacksonville will issue daily weather forecasts warning of cold waves and frosts In the fruit belt and take over from Washington a twice dally wind and weather forecast for marines from Cape Hatteras to the western Caribbean. Teletype will connect Jacksonville and New Orleans with ten gulf coast cities during the five months’ hurricane season, while radio will flash signals from co-operating vessels plying the CSrlbBean. - -**■• •. 125-Year-Old Church It Dissolved by Court Writ Lisbon, Ohio.—The 125-year-old Trin ity Reformed Church in Hanover town ship, near here, was dissolved under an order Issued by Columbiana County Common Pleas Judge W. F. Lones. A 40-acre tract was divided. The synod was granted the church and Its site. The parsonage was awarded to the Central Theological seminary and the cemetery adjoining the church was as signed to the Trinity Reformed Church Cemetery association. The parish was established in 1810 by Rev. John Stauzh, a German Luth eran minister. He served as pastor uo W^W IIP^ Lieut Col. Rosa E. Rowell is the newly appointed chief of all the avia tion onlta of the marine corps. 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