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McHenry Plaindealer (McHenry, IL), 25 Oct 1923, p. 9

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I Battleship to be built tinder Washington ' Commit ioned DICKINSON F THE D. a. S. Colorado--the RHINE REBELS FIGHT POLICE Separatists Fail Before Onflight m Aix-La-ChapaUe, Paris Hears. '• >. JAIL DELIVERY . FOILED BY DOB f"K • Canine Attacks Prisoners When They Overpower Depfet^. uty Sheriff. -.•£* dreadnaught Just commissioned--ever goes into battle, the citizens of the Centennial State are likely to spend most of their time on their knees In prayer until they hear the result Foe they are Just wrapped up In the Colorado and like to burst with pride over this $27,000,000 fighting ship, the third to bear the name and probably the most powerful in the world. The Colorado state flag flies on her. One hundred and fifty Colorado boys are among tha crew and more are going. Reproductions of Colorado scenery adorn her. The sliver service presented by the state to the* old Colorado (now the Pueblo) Is on board. For other reasons the Colorado ta of particular Interest to the nation--and to the world. "A vast experimental laboratory of marine engineering," •he has been called, and tt Is said of her: "Though •be is primarily a fighting machine, she need never fire a shot at the enemy to earn her cost of $27,- 000,000 many times over for J>er country." It appears that the most advanced designs of ship equipment have been installed In, the Colorado and the results of their test will be placed at the disposal of American shipbuilders for their guidance in building the national merchant marine and the future navy. Electric motor-driven propellers, 18,000-horsepower turbine generators, and oil-burning boilers are part of the advanced construction that is said to make this 32,600-ton superdreadnaught significant to marine engineers. Further unusual features Include these: From a forward speed of twenty-one knots the Colorado can be brought op standing In three minutes. Her eighteen-inch armor- plate Is supposed to be proof against submarines and air bombs, as welf as direct fire. With • veritable honeycomb of water-tight compartments •he must be literally shot to pieces before she can be sunk. Eight 16-lnch guns In two forward and two after turrets (the largest permitted by the Washington conference) can drop eight tons of •teel and high explosives on the deck of an enemy twenty miles away--enough to put out of commission anything afloat. A captive observation balloon and several scout airplanes are also carried, tjlx men In the control-room far down between the two 18,000 horsepower turbo-electric generators and the four 8,000-horsepower electric propeller motors, control every movement of these two gigantic mechanisms, and every other Important machine, on orders from the bridge. Another thing that adds to the Interest In the Colorado is the fact that she, with her sister ship, the West Virginia, is the last superdreadnaught which the United States will undertake for fourteen years, under the Five-Power Naval treaty. That means that she may be the last of her kind --either because of universal peace or because by that time the capital ship may be wholly futile for the purposes of war. " The third Colorado was designated as Battle ship No. 45 (hunting from the first In the new navy), authorized In the building program of Aug. 29, 1016, to be of 32,600 tons trial displacement, eight sixteen-inch guns in four center line turrets, twelve five-inch guns for torpedo defense, eight antiaircraft guns and two torpedo tubes. Her main machinery Is designated to attain twentyone knots with about 28,000 horsepower, two main turbine generators of Westinghouse type driving motors on four shafts, one screw on each. She Is armored on the waterline, turrets, conning tower and smoke uptakes. She uses only fuel oil and her steering engine, anchor windlass and most other auxiliary machinery are electric driven. She will mount a catapult for launching airplanes and generally have all improvements of the best naval practice. At the Washington conference on the reduction of armaments, the Colorado and the West Virginia were on the list oifered of uncompleted ships to be scrapped, but the Japanese were so bent on retaining their newest battleship, Mutsu, at the time all but completed, that a new scrapping program was made, by which the Colorado and West Virginia were to be completed and the two oldest dreadnaughts, Delaware and North Dakota, much smaller vessels, would then be scrapped, die resulting tonnage offsetting the Japanese Incranss SEVERAL PERSONS ARE SLAIN - . 11 terlln Masses 60400 Fight Bavaria--Chancellor Streeemsmt Acts to Halt Split of Qermany by Reds. a * Paris.--There were violent Incidents In Alx-la-Chapelle Monday night, says a dispatch to Le Matin. The police decided to oppose the separatists and tried to tear down the Rhineland colors from public buildings. A squadron of Belgian cavalry turned out ready to intervene if necessary. Later the police fired on a group of Republicans, who replied. Several persons were killed. Herlin.--Chancellor Stresemann has made his decision regarding Bavaria. Following the administration of the oath of allegiance to Bavaria to the 20,000 reichswehr troops there and the message from Gen. von Lossow to ail military radio stations in northern Germany stating that Bavaria Is fighting for the German national lil>erty against the Marxism of the Berlin government, all available reichswehr troops are being rushed Into Saxony. Ostensibly this concentration Is against the armed communist bands of Saxony. But it Is learned from a source close to Reichswehr Minister Gessler that eighty trains bearing troops and their provisions had been dispatched from Silesia, Wurtemburg, Mecklenburg, and Pomerania during the day and that a total of from 50,- 000 to 50,000 reichswehr will be en' camped in Saxony 'soon. Herr Zelgner, Saxony's prime minister, made U clear to the Socialist leaders in Berlin that the troop concentrations are not against the Saxon government and that his differences with Creneral Mueller, inllltnry governor of Saxony, are pushed aside while the whole attention ' of the reichswehr commander is concentrated on the Bavarian difficulty^ REWARDED WITH STEAK Youngstown, O.--It has been truthfully stated that a dog Is man's most faithful friend. Deputy Sheriff George Callahan of Mahoning county has reason to vouch for the truth of the statement. Paul Lyden, a Republican, was elected to the office of sheriff in 1921, assuming office on January 1, 1922. * He is a great lover of the canine family, and when a friend presented him with a police dog puppy early in 1922 Paul immediately naturalized him by naming him after his Republican Idol, Theodore Roosevelt, and soon "Teddy" was a real deputy sheriff, although not on the pay roll. The dog was quickly taught to keep watch on prisoners; to make friends with no one other than company selected by the sheriff, said company, of course including the various deputies about the Jail. On the night of September 17, Deputy Sheriff George Callahan went Into the jail to check his prisoners and see that they were locked up for the night. H£ had no sooner entered the cell block than he was set upon by seven colored prisoners, three of whom were awaiting trial for grave offenses. Fortunately he left the outside door open, something that he rarely had done previously. The prisoners grabbed him and attempted to take his keys and weapons from him. He put up a battle, but was rapidly getting the worst of the scrimmage against the heavy odds. Dog Attacks Ringleader. "Teddy" who was reclining on a tug In the sheriff's office had heard the sound of the scuffle. He ran Into the Mil room, and sbing up the situation. MERCHANT GIVES MORE EVIDENCE W. F. Penny, prominent merchant of Hendersonville, N. C^ and a leader In (the civic and business affairs of Ills section, gives nnstinted praise to Teniae, which, he states, has restored his health and overcome troubles that had defied treatment for years: "For many years," stated Mr. Penny, "I was a great sufferer from Indigestion and stomach trouble. Ulcere- '• tion set in and necessitated an operation. Utter lack of digestive power \ over a long period so weakened me that I was hardly able to attend to my business. "Tan lac seemed to reach the seat of my troubles at once and now I have normal strength and activity In every way. Tanlac Is undoubtedly the best * Stomach medicine to be had." ' Tanlac is for sale by all good drug^ gists. Take no substitute. Over 40 million bottles sold.--AdvertlseaMafe i,>r : ' •• -ji, •' The Real Reason. "Boy, is this the field on which the great battle was fought?" asked the historian. **No, sir; that be at the top of the hill," answered the native boy. "Dear, dear!" exclaimed the historian, "that must be a mile away. Why didn't they fight it in this field?". MI suppose because this "ere field belongs to Farmer Johnson. He never would lend his field for anything, not even for t' village sports." ^ ? •"HP--' Girl Riding in Rear of Auto Killed by Fumes San Bernardino, (Jul.--Lucille Ma honey, sixteen years old, was suffocated while riding with her. parents in a closed automobile Saturday night, they learned when they reached their destination at Vlctorvllle, near here. Fumes from a broken exhaust pipe permeated the rear section of the cat. where the girl was seated. Pictar* No. 1 show. President M. A. NeeUad, of £• New York Shipbuilding corporation, officially turning om the Colorado to Capt. R- R. Belknap, U. S. N. No. 2 «howr forward turrot and two of tho eight 16-iodi tuns. No. 3 ihowi the ship's company saluting OM Glory" as she is commissioned. No. 4 shows the officers lined np for inspection.^ through the Mutsu. By the conference treaty, no more battleships are to be built before 1937. The » Colorado, the West Virginia and the Maryland (this last commissioned In 1921), three sister shlpfc are the most powerful and modern battleships la the world, though one British battleship is a close rival. The Colorado is 624 feet in length. AT feet 8% inches beam, 32,600 tons mean displacement. She Is driven at a speed of twenty-one knots (about twenty-fcve land miles) an hour by electrical drive machinery. She carries eight slxteen-lnch guns as her main battery, In addition to twelve fiveiuch, eight three-Inch and two torpedo tubes. She has about 28,000 horsepower. Her complement comprises 69 officers, 1,266 enlisted men and 78 marines. Captain Reginald Rowan Belknap, U. 8. commanding officer, desires to have as BMW Colorado boys on board as possible. Captain Belknap entered the Annapolis Natfk academy In 1887. served In the Spanish war, Phll^, pine insurrection and Boxer campaign, was defr .orated for services in connection with the Mussina earthquake relief In 1909 and was command* of mine-laying and mine-sweeping branch of the Atlantic fleet from 1915 to 1917. He was promoted to captain In May. 1917, and was awarded the navy distinguished service medal for service In connection with fitting out and afterwards commanding the American mine-laying squadron la the northern barrage operation In the North sea. Daring 1919 and 1920 he commanded the battleship Delaware and recently he was on the staff of the naval war college. Com. Wilson Brown, United States navy. Is executive. The new battleship Colorado Is the third ship la the American navy to bear that name. The first named for the Colorado river, was a wooden steaiu frigate of 3.400 tons displacement, mounting forty guns, launched at the Norfolk navy yard on June 19. 1856. She was one of the larger vessels of her time In our navy, corresponding to the intermediate or fifty-gun ship of the days before steam and to the armored or battle cruiser of ltf» er periods. Colorado I first saw war service as flagship of Commodore William Marvlne. In establishing As blockade of the Gulf of Mexico coast, from Key West to the Rio Grande In the Civil war. Admiral Farragut wanted the Colorado for his attack on the forts below New Orleans, in April. 1862. but her twenty-three feet draft was much too deep to cross the Mississippi bar. Later the Colorado became flagship of Commodore H. K. Thatcher in the North Atlantic blockading squadron. After the Civil war the Colorado I served as flagship on various stations. Including the Asiatic. Feb. 14. 1885. thirty-one years after the laying of ber 'keel, she was sold to the usual fate of being broken up and burned for her copper fastenings fni< ether salvage material. Meantime the territory of Colorado, organised ss sucL In 1861. bad been admitted Aug. 1, 18T8L fntn the Union as a state. Acquired part with the Louisiana purchase in 1803, part with Texas la 1845. and the/remainder by cession from Mexico In 1S48, the country was little known before 18W, when discovery of gold led to its settlement and gnowth. |isn-of-war Colorado n was ooe of sl>( armored cruisers authorized three at a time, by congress M 1899 ami 1900, of 13,680 tons displacement,' carrying four eight-inch guns in two turrets, fourteen six- Inch, a score of smaller caliber and two underwater lorpedo tubes. Her Nlclausse boilers and fourcylinder triple expansion engines driving twin screws, developing 27,000 horsepower, attained a maximum speed of over twenty-two knots. Her ship's company numbered 910. In 1915 the Colorado II became flagship of the Pacific reserve fleet and on December 1, 1916, her name was changed to Pueblo, after the second city in Colorado. Under this name she served In the cruiser and transport force j4n the World war under Capt. G. W. Williams, escorting transports across, snd after the armistice bringing 10,136 troops home. In 1921 she becniue the receiving ship at New York, pend- • ing furthe^actlve employment. What remarkable' changes have taken place In Athe sixty-five, years' lapse between the first and the latest Colorado! As a general measure of sixe. 8.400 tons displacement is grown nearly tenfold; the old seasoned oak hull Is now all steel, of thick armored sides and many watertight compartments; full sail power has utterly disappeared like cage masts, topped by large fire control stations; •he symmetrical tracery of standing and running rigging is now represented by the bristling, knobby and odd placed radio antennae. Down below In the old frigate, rectangular boilers of copper mounted steam at only 25 pounds pressure to a thumping, cumbersome, slow-moving horizontal reciprocating engine, which by means of a single screw drove< the ship at ten knots at best, where now oil burning, tubular sieel hollers generate 29C ponnds steam pressure for the delicately balanced turbines adjusted to the thousandth of an inch which, without the least tremor of vibration and with scarce a sigh of sound, spin at about 2.100 revolutions a minute, generating alternating electric current which by a twelfth reduction turns four screw propellers 171 Revolutions for a ship speed of twenty-one knots. For Illumination oil lamps and candles are re- • talned only for emergency, should electric light fail, and the present sunlike searchlight had no like In the frigate days. In the day's work, the shrill pipe snd hoarse voice of the bos'n's mates passing the word along the open sweep of decks Is now supplemented. In fact all but replaced, by speaking tubes, telephone and other instruments, electric or mechanical, for transmitting communications to scores of separated spaces all through the ship. And at mealtimes, while navy beans still hold their own. salt pork, the venerable salt horse, plum duff and hardtack have given place to refrigerated meat fresh vegetables, bakers' bread, pie and Ice cream. Of all changes, however, the greatest '8 In the kind of demands made upon the crew and officers. In the frigate Colorado, the yards were hoisted and braced about, the sails were reefed and furled, the anchor weighed, the boats rowed and hoisted, the ship steered, and stores whipped on boardall ny hand. Handling'sail, besides making strong bodies. taught eye. hand, and brain to work nimbly together. In contrast, most of the demands for power in the modern battleship Colorado are met by ma ehinery. - ^ THIS LINE OF SURVEY STRAIGHT Boundary Between Alaska and Canada (hint for 000 MMes Over Mountains and Morasses. Tha boundary line that runs northward between Alaska and Canada from the coast to the Arctic ocean, is said to be the stralghtest of the world's surveyed lines. The line consists of a vista twenty feet wide cut nsm at lntervlsible points not* more than four miles apart, and of a detailed map of the strip of country two miles each side of the boundary. At prominent river crossings, and at main points' of travel, the monuments are sectional shafts five feet high, ot aluminum- bronze, weighing 300 pounds, set in a ton of concrete. At less 1m- _portont points the ^monuments are three feet high and set in UXJ0 pounds Of concrete. In speaking of the actual surveying work, a member of the commissi.>n appointed to mark uie boundary line said: -The treaty makers (American and British. 1867) laid a ruler on a map and said, "This shall be the dividing line.' The commission was five years finishing the task. "The boundary runs for W0 Ifilles over great mountain ranges, glaciers, swift rivers, quieksands, bottomless morasses. High summits were crossed. raging torrents forded, cainp made on g'.aciers. Every obstacle of the wilder uess was fotfght and conquered."-- Detroit News. Gains New Flower. Take some aeed that has lodged on his long tramp northward in the hoot sole of a common soldier in Vespa sian's legion. The boot reaches Do* er. plods on. wears out. Is cast by th> way. rots In a ditch. From It, nex spring, Britain has gained a aew flow er.--Qulller-Couch. Rumety Refused Rehearing on Sentence as War Alien Washington.--The Supreme court d* nled a review In the case of Edward , Rumely nnd others sentenced to tin penitentiary after the war for failing to report to the alien property custodian their indebtedness to the German government In connection with the purchase of the New York Evening Mail. "..r-r" Autotst, Pais Say, Declare#' Open Season on Pedestrian De<-atur, 111.--A. T. Hill, twenty-four, is charged with assault with Intent to murder. Two friends said Hill was the driver of an automobile which ran down Frank C. Peers, an elderly man. The friends quoted Hill as having said: "See that .fellow crossing tlie street?' Watch me make itini jump." r MOTHER! GIVE SICK BABY j "CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP* Harmless Laxative to Clean Uwwp and Bowels of Baby or Child, f Even constipated. bilious, feverish, or sick, colic , Babies and Children love to take genuine "California Fig Syrup." No other laxative regulates the tender little bowels so nicely. It#*; sweetens the stomach and starts the liter SM bowels acting wrchout griping. Contains no narcotics or soothing drugs. Say "California" to your druggist and avoid counterfeits'. Insist upon genuine "California Fig Syrup" which contains directions.---'Advertisement. Something Left. The Missionary--My erring brother, have you been Christianized? The Native--Not completely. They have gobbled all my land, bnt 1 still have a tew clothes.--Indianapolis Journal. dim m Girls Buried by QuaKe Live Twenty-five Days on Water Tokyo.--Four Japanese girl students at the Yokohama high school, who were burled under debris during the earthquake, were rescued alive after being imprisoned for 25 days without food. They were found beside a protecting boulder and had kept alive on the few drops of water that bad trickled down from above. Cut While Shaving Caused Death of Lord Carnarvon New Haven, Conn.--Infection in a cut on his face received while shaving caused the death of Lord Carnarvon, discoverer of the tomb of King Tut- Ankh-Amen, according to Prof. Paul V. C. Baur of the archeology department of Yale university, who addressed the Cfusslcnl club here. iaps Massacre Five Hundred Koreans, Tokyo Dispatch Says Tokyo.-More than ii\e hundred Koreans residing in Japan were victims of vigilantes, reserves and others in the days Immediately following the earthquake that destroyed Tokyo and Yokohama, according to reports published here. Wales to Visit 8outh Africa. London.--The prince of Wales had hardly disembarked from the ship bringing him home from his Canadian travels when he was rounding out a program for a trip to South Africa, which dominion he has not yet visited. Want U. S. to Rule Isle of Pines. Havana.--Pleas that Isle of Pines be taken binder American jurisdiction will be to the United States senate by a delegation of Americans about December 1. Cilba now exercises sovereignty over the Island. U. S. Seizure of Rum Boat Upheld. Washington.--The Supreme court declined to review the case of the run schooner Henry L. Marshall, invoivinhe question of the jurisdiction of th< United States over foreign vessels out side flie three-mile limit. 3x4-Inch Paper for Will. Doylestown, Pa.--A piere of papc our inches long by three inches wi<; vas used by the late MnJ. Siiunja omfort to bequeuth his entire est:u> aid to be worth abuiit $1,UC0,UC0. I His widow and .daughter. , Went Into Action. went Into action. He grabbed Floyd Barrett, charged with assault, and the ringleader of the mutiny, by the right forearm and dragged him off Callahan, and then returned to the fight and seized Clem Head, charged with murder, by the leg and pulled him to the ground. The other mutineers then bectune alarmed and fled to their cells. "Teddy" then for the first time barked, as much as to say, "Come on, all of you," but the challenge was not accepted. After seeing that his prisoners were secure for the night, Callahan patched up his bruises with articles fin the sheriff's first-aid kit, called to "Teddy" to accompany him, apd told Deputy Lamont Jacobs that (he ju»d "Teddy" were going for a watkT "Teddy" refused to tell where the stroll took Callahan and himself, but there Is a persistent rumor that it led to a restaurant a short distance from the county Jail, and that the deputy bribed "Teddy" to remain his faithful friend. At leasf he was seen to pay for a T-bone steak, while hs dined on coffee and. When Sheriff Lvden returned from Columbus, where he had gone to commit a prisoner to the penitentiary, he rewarded his faithful caning w^h a brand new collar. ; Battles Forty Officers; Afraid of Little Wife Chicago.--It took 40 policemen to subdue Morrow Harding, when he was arrested for mental observation. "Save me, Judge," the man cried in terror when his slim little wife appeared In court. Mrs. Harding was forced to leave the court room before her husband, who is six feet six Inches tall, could be convinced he was safe. Hazing Causae Youth's Suicide. New Salem. Ind.--After being based by fellow high school students. Vernon A. Walke. sixteen years old, committed suicide. Brooding over the hazing caOsed the act, the boy's parents said. Police have began an ln» •estigatlon. Lunatic on Parols Slays Aunt. Lincoln, R. I.--"Urged by voices te cut off the heads of the two women.* Arthur Rushton. of this city, a pa roled lunatic. Wiled his aunt. 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