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w- Imprisoned guarded -•m Americans Have Quit Gofeig to ? ^iata to Rescue Wealthy Imprisoned Princesses. 8BMMS ARE HOW VICTIMS Impostors Who Market Adventures to Credulous Investor* Give Their ^ **rincesse* Names of Famous ^ , " Women Long fc ^ Oranada, Spain.--Ametkimt * l»*ve EL;•:£ 1°^ coming to Spain in search of the jp^:- beautiful and wealthy princesses 1m- •jv'"' •' prisoned is a dark, tower by a J. . : greedy uncle who is anlou to annex her fortune. jlfeb The historic old Spanish swindle ap • * P**®ntly has gone out of fashion In \ *be United States, but it is still Sn - • vogue in other parts of the world. J?. /, Oei-many hU3 recently supplied quite ,*i a crop of kind-hearted gentlemen who *'"J advanced money for the release of the ^ric-eyed Spanish beauty who wo# fr, f euffering in a rat-infested cell and f *"°wl7 dying on & diet of bread and If ^ = water while the bats hovered about bw bead and added to the termi of P'r '"b« solitary confinement. Beauties in Granada. Granada baa always been a popular " center for the men who have contfrS " !trtbuted to the relief of imprisoned ^ . beauties. Washington Irving and scores of lesser writers have credited |'i'*' .46«ina(li with having more beautiful I;' iWomPB than my other dty in the /I world. The legend of the Rose of the Alhambra and the stories of the three* »> beautiful princesses Zayda, Zorayda and Zorahayda, hover about the Al- 5 ha•f mbra and make it the natural refuge for disappointed investors In distressed beauty. fco It Is not strange that searchers 4 tor princesses should come to Oranada after having sought vainly for mythi- <f cal castles in mythical mountains, s Most of the modern Spanish princesses | are being held captives in castles by the sea. Castles by the sea are so mmuch damper, and, then It to much more romantic for rescue parties to approach the rock coast in Ships and wave to the Imprisoned princess, who will promptly tear her clothing to bits and make a rope with which she will lower herself .from the gloomy tower. Ilany of the Impostors who are marketing adventure to credulous Invest* ors give their princesses the names of famous women who have been dead for centuries. Moraymah and Alatmh queens of the Moorish regime, who have been dead for over 400 years, and many other celebrities of history and legend have lent their names to pdocesseS supposed to be in distress. Visitors Are Warned. Hotel keepers In Granada have become skilled in detecting visitors who they Inquire A* or astrologers, «M probably charge well for thetraervtees. letters concerning the distressed princesses are usually marked strictly confidential, and instructions are given that nothing must be said to anyone lest the life of the princess be endangered- Host of the dupes are too much ashamed of their plight to confess openly that thsgr have gulled. THE HOME RADIO HnrVMabud U« It »>*• htATT vatMu. LOOSE-COUPLED COILS Hair Saws Woman's Ufa. Pottstown, Pa.--Although aeesssly Injured when she fell from a second story window while reaching for a screen the other day, Mrs. Clara Keim owes her escape from probable death to her long hair. She landed on her head on a cement walk, but her hair was so arranged as to form a cUbloo which broke the force of the contact She was unconscious wfcantound and taken to a hospital. Volcanoes Our Be^t Friends Otologist Says Without Them We Would Have No Oceans x er Carbon Dioxid* -- • KAMI ERUPTI1HI DESCRIBED Most Tremendous Volcanic Explosion of History Passed Unnotioed Be* cause It Was 8o Far From Centers of Civilisation. Washington.--It might be a surprise to many to be told that the lirespitting, lava-spouting, earth-rocking volcano is one of mankind's best friends rather than his arch enemy, but such is the surprising declaration which was explained to the conference on geography of the National Education association In Boston recently. The most tremendous volcanic erup- .Thousands Working on die Leviathan The huge Leviathan, lying In the shipyards at Newport News, Va, has 2,200 men hard at work refitting the ship for passenger service. The Leviathan when completed In June, 1923, will be the largest vessel afloat, being 850 feet long and weighing 54,282 gross tons. tlon of history, that of Mount Katmal in Alaska In 1912, was described in this connection by Dr. Robert F. Griggs, leader of several parties sent to the scene of the cataclysm by the Rational Geographic society, and who discovered the valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, KatmaTs neighbor wonder of nature. Mankind's debt to the volcano has been more fully recognized by results of recent researches, says a bulletin of the society describing the unheaval. Without volcanoes, It Is now believed, fhere would be no oceans, and to volcanoes we are Indebted for carbon dioxide, without which human life could not exist. Katmal Explosion Unnotioed. The explosion of Katmal. the conference was told, was unnoticed because it was so far from the centers of civilisation. Had the eruption occurred near New York city, the bulletin declares, the suphurous fumes would have polluted the air everywhere east of the Rocky mountains; the noise would have reverberated like an artillery duel across the central states. The lower Hudson itself would have been turned into a gigantic tomb. However, due to the lack of population in that far region, there was no loss of life, and the eruption provides scientists and geographers now one of their greatest opportunities to study the phenomenon of volcanic action. Though generally unaware of the eruption until long after, every Inhabitant of the country, and almost of the world, felt its effects, one of which was the cold damp summer of 1912. This was caused by the Interception of sunlight by the long-hanging dust cloud In the upper air. Even in cloudless Sahara, It was declared, the mtj was overcast Repeat loe Age, A succession of such mighty SODplosions could plunge the earth Into another Ice age, It Is believed. An area around Katmal, larger than the state of Delaware, was covered that summer by more than a foot of volcanic ash which was enough to destroy all but the hardiest of vegetation. When the explosion occurred two cubic miles of material were blown off the top of the mountain, and the present whereabouts of the mountain top Is still a mystery to scientists. A Japanese scientist his has made synthetic petroleum oqt of fish oil and clay. DEMAND FOR UNIFORM SIGNALS . it; . #. Railway Association Recommends Standard Colors. W:i of the Suggestions Made hi H derest of Public Safety Is Uss > of Yellow in Automobile Tail Lights. 1* tin Interest' of public * safety recommendations for the stand- ' *' h-ardixation of colors for traffic signals ".,3 ';?.are being considered. These recom- Emendations were made on behalf of if. **f:ithe signal section of the American •*; Railway association at a recent con- - ference requested by the Illuminating Engineering society and the International Traffic Officers' association and lield under the auspices of the American engineering standards committee. The recommendations are: 1. The principle of red for stop .$'•' everywhere, unless qualified by a more ; favorable Indication that Is at highway crossings with railroads If train Is approaching, in fixed signals and In the hands of traffic officers, at street Intersections, at the ends of streets, and possibly to Indicate «*• cavations in streets. 2. Yellow for tall lights of automobiles, possibly excavations In streets and for calling policemen, or for any other purpose where caution is required ; possibly at busy street inter* sections to indicate that the traffic lights will be changed from red to green or from green to red. S. Green lights for fire escapes, for proceed at street Intersections and other purposes to Indicate the way Is clear. In presenting these recommendations on behalf of the signal section A. H. Hudd, chief signal engineer of the Pennsylvania system, said: "The railroads are particularly In* terested in eliminating the use of the red light for various purposes other than that of indicating danger or stop unless qualified by a more favorable Skunks Lure Bees From Hives, Eat 'Em Washington.--A report from Ohio received by the biological survey of the United States Department of Agriculture says that skunks are giving a great deal of trouble to beekeepers In that region. The skunks visit the hives at night and scratch on the outside till the bees come out. As soon as they appear the skunks eat them. The biological survey recommends that under such conditions the hives be fenced in with chicken wire at least three feet high. color. They desire that any scheme devised may conflict as little as possible with their own signal systems already established and that uniformity of Indications in the protection of highway crossings at grade may be established." 4 ' , -rr Destroyers Getting Ready for Duty in China Waters of the thirteen United States destroyers asdgned to duty In Asiatic waters, >«V«g on terpefldes at' t&n' ival torpedo ststton, Newport; E L, Shortly beforo tfet flotilla dsparted from there for TTi'mrsi Coils, or, as they are more often called, tuning colls, are very essential parts of radio telegraphy and telephony. The old style tuning coil, as used in Wireless telegraphy, has been largely superseded by the type known as loose-coupled coils or adjustablecoils which may be altered or adjusted to tune much finer or more closely than by the old type coiL Although it is not difficult to make a loose-coupled coil yet, as Is the case with many of the parts of radio sets. It Is as cheap and far more satisfactory to purchase them ready made. The conventional type of loose-coupled Coll consists of two distinct coils, one within the other, aa shdwn in Fig. 46. One of these Is the primary coil, the other the secondary or induction coiL The two are so arranged that the Inner or secondary coll slips back and forth within the larger or primary coll, i thus varying the coupling or induction, for the electricity--or oscillations-- in the seconds rj{ coil i8k> merely Induced by the primary circuit) In the outer coil, *a that if a portion of the secondary coll is with-. drawn from the primary coil, as shown in the. figure, there will be less induced current and in this way tuning is accomplished. To allow of still finer adjustment, the primary coll Is provided with an ad-, Just* hi« slider A, and the secondary coll has, a multi-pointed switch B. Another type of loosecoupled coll is arranged so that one coll revolves within the other; while another type, which Is the simplest of all for the amateur to construct and gives the best results, is composed of three discs or colls "stagger-wound" which may bo adjusted back and forth. To make one of these Inductors you will require some stiff, smooth cardboard, heavy Bristol board, thin flbreboard or similar composition and about half a pound of No. 24 D. C. C. wire. Also, in setting up and arranging the colls, yon will require binding posts, knobs, s little sheet brass and a few other odds and ends. With a pair of dividers or compasses draw three circles on the Cardboard or fibre, each about four to five Inches In diameter, having all exactly the same size. Then, using the dividers, scribe off an unequal number (five, seven, or nine) marks around the circumference of each circle. Pig. 47, A. Next, still using the dividers, draw a smaller circle, say one and one-half Inches to two and one-half inches in diameter within each circle (B). If the circles are four Inches in diameter use the smaller circle inside, if five inches the larger one, and with a rule draw radiating lines one-fourth of an inch apart from each of the marks on the outer circumference to the center of the circle (C). With a pair of scissors or a sharp knife (if cardboard is used) or a• fine saw (if fibre), cut out the discs and cut slots in each disc according to the marks, as shown at (D). Next, If you have used cardboard, give each slotted disc a thorough covering with shellac, using at least three coats, and when thoroughly dry proceed to wind the discs or colls. In doing this, start the wire--being sure to leave enough for connections --at a point at the inner end of one slot and wind over one segment and under the next, and as the number is uneven you will find that the wires will thus cross, as shown at (E). The number of times the wire should be passed »pij be decided upon by experimenting after the coll ft in use, but, as a starter, about twenty five or thirty turns on one, about 0M and one-half times aa many, or saj thirty-eight to forty-five on the second, and twice as many on the third as os' the first, or from fifty to slity, will be somewhere near right Then, by removing or adding a few turns, as you adjust your receivers you can finally secure the very best results. To mount this coll so it may be used, the coll or disc with the least turns, or, in other words, the primary coll, should be mounted rigidly and Immovably and should be connected by means of binding posts to the aerial and ground wires. The secondary coil and the tickler coil should then be fastened to brass or metal strips about two or two and one-half Inches long, one-sixteenth inch thick and half an inch wide. One end of each strip should be attached by small bolts or screws to the colls and the other end U. S. APPOINTS FUEL DICHTMS Sixty Operators Named to Carry Out Orders of Interstate Commerce Commission. H00VBPS PUU ANNOUNCED WfHt C »msc »»n« r>if attached to a movable peg or bolt with a fibre or bakellte knob at the opposite end. Fig. 48 shows clearly how this Is done. In this way, the secondary and tickler may be swung back and forth to cover more or less of the primary; but great care should be used that the tickler does not touch the primary coll. When the coll Is thus mounted on a proper panel or stand, it should be wired as shown in Fig. 49, and when the whole set is In good working order and final adjustments made, it should all be enclosed in a neat wooden case with a hinged top or cover, Fig. 50, although, of course, this is merely a protective measure and does not affect the working efficiency of the set. It must be clearly understood, however, that this type of coil can only be used In connection with a vacuum-tube outfit as shown. When all wiring is complete and adjustments are ready to be made, connect the storage battery, as shown; place the lamp or tube In its socket and gradually turn on the rheostat to see If the tube glows properly. Never turn on the current to the bulb quickly or to full power, or the filament will be needlessly burnt out and wasted long before Its time. Next, connect the B, (or dry) battery, the ground and aerial and, finally, the phones. in using this outfit, turn on the bulb slowly, adjust the knobs carrying the coils so that all three are in line and then adjust or tune the variable condenser until the signals you wish to hear are clear. Then, by gradually adjusting the movable colls, you can cut out Interference and also make the signals, music or other sounds louder. When the two movable colls are entirely away from the primary-coll you will have your shortest wave length, while when all three are together, you will b&jQ tbe longest wave i^gt^r ,_s • \ L AMPLIFIERS Amplifiers, which are devices designed to Increase the volume of sound, are very simple affairs and while they may be bought ready-made any person can construct one in a few hours at much less cost. The most expensive part of an amplifier is the bulb or vacuum-tube auu as such tubes as Myers are much cheaper than others and are exactly as good for amplification-- though less efficient in the sending set--money can be saved by using them. A one-step amplifier, on such a set as described previously, will greatly increase the clearness and loudness of messages and by adding two or more, and using a loud tons horn or phone, music, singing, etc., «»•»» be produced to fill a large room or hall. In two or more steps of amplifiers It is merely necessary to duplicate the first, which is shown in Fig. 52. The only thing to be borne in mind is always to turn the transformers at right angles to each other for each step. This is essential in order to break up the magnetic fields Wnd prevent the machine from squealing or roaring. Another point to bear in mind is that the shorter the grid leads the more efficient the whole. In the figure, A is a Jack or plugsocket which Is connected as shown, the outer arms a a being connected back to the phone connections on thedetector or original receiver set. Then, by inserting the plug of the phone between these (a a) the contact with B B is broken and you can listen-In as usual, while, by removing the plug and placing it at C, the message is amplified before you receive it. Fig. 53. Then, if a second step Is used connect c c to the jack corresponding to A on the second amplifier, as at b b, and so on. The transformer D should be purciihscu ready-made and connected as shown and according to the directions accompanying it. In the figure, D P represents the primary terminals and D S the secondary terminals of the transformer and which will be found marked P and S on the transformer binding-posts. B, In the Illustration, Is the grid; F the amplifying tube plate; G the B batteries of 45 volts; H the storage battery, and I the rheostat. Fig. 51. The same six-volt storage battery used on the detector set supplies the current for the amplifier and the connections to which are shown at H. Although a grid-leak Is not essential to this amplifier one may be used If desired and should be shunted In as shown at K. One rule which you should always remember in setting up an amplifier or other radio apparatus is to keep gll wires as short and direct as possiole for otherwise the set will howl and buzz. Another thing Is to ksep all wires free and clear and where they cross keep them well apart. Also, never run two wires parallel if it can be avoided and If It cannot be avoided run them parallel for as short a distance as possible "Presidential Committee" Is Composed of Hoover, Daugherty, Fall and McCord--Body to Have Charge of Coal Distribution, Washington, July 28.--Here Is Wfcat President Harding proposes to do in the coal and railroad strike emergency, as announced by Secretary of Commerce Hoover. The plan Is predicated upon an opinion of Attorney General H. H. Daugherty authorizing wide legal powers to the government. 1. Appointment of a "presidential committee," made up of Secretary I Hoover, Attorney General Daugherty, Secretary ¥*all of the Interior depart' ment and Chairman McCord of the interstate commerce committee. This committee will have, general charge of all plans for distribution and regular tionC 2. Representatives of coal land rail operatives to have delegations on the presidential committee. 3. Agents of President's committee In every coal field. 4. A committee of coal operators, or owners, in each district 5. Co-operation In every way in carrying out orders for preferential movement of freights. I 6. Careful check on movements of freight cars. ' 7. Operators to be allowed wide latitude at mines. > 8. Cars to be allotted to only those falne owners who agree to fair price ^arrangements. 9. All operators agree to tentative frnaximum price fixed by Commerce de- |>artment on June 1 ($3.50 per ton at mine). The six members of the operators' committee, named by districts (a "drafting committee" it was called) were: S. B. Yerkes, Birmingham; EL E. White, Glenwhite, W. Va.; E. S. Mayan, Knoxville; Charles O'Neill, Altoona; S. Pemberton Hutchison, Philadelphia, and C. E. Bockum, New York. The drafting committee was a part of the general executive committee of the operators, appointed to co-operate with the government and the railways. Other members and districts appointed were: Hazard district, B. L. Douglas, Cincinnati ; Harlan county district, R. Quay, Louisville; Kanawha district, C. V. Dickinson, Huntington; Logan district, A. J. Kong; northeastern Kentucky district, C. W. Connor, Ashland, Ky.; northern West Virginia, E. Drennan; Williamson district, R. D. Patterson, Dayton, O.; Virginia Operators' association, Webb Willetts, Norton, Va.; Elk River district, A. G. Bradley; western Kentucky, C. F. Richardson, Paducah; Somerset county, Pennsylvania, P. Kendall, Washington; upper Potomac, T. A. Emmons, A. W. Stewart, John S. Brophy; Fayette county, Pennsylvania, George Whyet. The legal "O. K." was put upon the administration's plan to combat the twin strikes by Attorney General Daugherty. After studying the plan evolved by Secretary of Commerce Hoover the attorney general said it was within the law for the government to exercise such functions without further recourse to congress for new legislation. "I shall join with Secretary Hoover and every other governmental agency under the direction of the President to relieve the situation to the end that coal and other necessities of life may be furnished to the American people in sufficient quantities and at reasonable prices," the attorney general said. The first step will be to Invoke that section of the transportation act giving the Interstate commerce cbmmls- Bion complete control over the distribution and use of all railway motive power, cars, terminals and other facilities necessary to the movement of traffic. Hundreds of telegrams were sent out Sunday and replies received by the interstate commerce commission taking a census of the available railw aj equipment of the country and Its present location. With this data experts of the commission will be enabled to ascertain where there is a surplus of serviceable equipment that can be transferred to sections where equipment is lacking to move traffic. The Individual railroads have been loath to let their equipment get off their own lines, because it takes three to four months to get It back under normal procedure. With the commission taking jurisdiction, however, equipment will be kept on the move. Dr. Simon Patten Dlee. Philadelphia, July 26.--Dr. Simon N. Patten, for many years head of the department of political economy at the University of Pennsylvania, is dead. He was born In Sandwich, UL, and was educated at Northwestern. Here's Prise ttadio of the a kM f-W- i* 6"v.; >#y ..•iJit: ^ Ji .'idM "Boner." •very branch service has tt» own prize story, but the signal corps of the expeditionary forces of the United States army claims the palm for the infantry major, who got all excited when his telephones, telegraphs and buzzerphones went out of action, his pigeons all gone and no dogs to carry messages, and sent back by radio the following message to his corps commander: "I am absolutely without means of . • * f " . Crystal May Be Used Again. W.,F. Coney, of Hackensack, N. gives a suggestion regarding crystals. As many know from experience, It is very hard to get a sensitive spot on some pieces, and often It Is necessary to break up the mineral. This Is a messy job and need not be done. Mr. Coney takes the mineral, places It face down on a flat file and rubs down to a clean new surface. This can be done several times with the same piece, and some wonderfully good 8chool Coal for Threshers. Grlswold, la., July 26.--School authorities liave given farmers here permission to use coal Btored In their high school buildings for threshing purposes. Many citizens have turned their fuel supply over to farmers. Autolst Kills Motorcycle Cop. Oshkosh, Wis., July 26.--George O'Connor, motorcycle officer of the Oshkosh police department, died at a local hospital from injuries received when he was run over and dragged by an automobile in a collision. r- Farmers Leave Patagonia. New Orleans, July 26.--Many American and British farmers have left Patagonia because of labor troubles and the activities of bandits, according to George E. Hunzlker, who ai* Bla GftUSKML i w cuse, N. Y* fdHMflr MMMI at the State MoMmMV «g |§* dustry, N. 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' And Scotland was vindicated Ttoo Phone Directories In Franca. ^ Think of a great European country with a population of 40,000,000 pe^ sons, in which the telephone is s» poorly developed thst two telephone directories will contain the nsmns of all the subscribers. Such is the of affairs In France, where tho eminent, which operates the service^ Issues one directory for Paris and oat for the rest of the country. Both books together contain fewer than there are in the Chicago phone directory. m -------------- : Refreshing rgnsisnee» Mrs. Kawler--"I cant do my matutinal coffee." Mrs. Nswrtdk --"Is that a good brand? We've triei so many that are poor." Dental : l£,:W Transcript Going Down. Blackstone--I* your during? Webstar--If you mean yes I r *v 1 ? According to a Greek writer effesfr ft Inate dandies in ancient Greece som%» tlmee slept on beds of sponge. 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