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' ' V...J T WEDNESDAY, APEII. 4, 1923 POBT JE E V IS, H. Y. THE EVEKIKG GAZETTE » L FIRES ID T ai OFniGHTBrAliimOSEN Plans of Explorer for Trip Across the North Pole Said to Be Complete. Roald Amundsen, the explorer, plans 'to hop off from Wainwright, on the north coast of Alaska, for his flight •across the north pole to Spitzbergen on June 20. or as near thereafter as weather permits. Because tlie date cannot he fixed ►exactly in advance and because prep arations for relief if the airship meets With disaster in Spitzbergen depend on knowledge of the time of his flight, vcitizens of Nome, Alaska, and the chamber of commerce have planned a system of signal fires to carry the news of his start from Wainwright to the nearest radio station, 400 miles away. This plan calls for the stationing of between twenty and thirty parties of two Eskimos each at intervals along the coast from Wainwright, near Point Barrow, to Noorvik on the Kobuk riv er, north of Bering straits. Huge bonfires are to be built at in tervals of about fifteen miles along the coast, driftw'ood and coal being used. When Amundsen starts his flight at Wainwright, the bonfire there will be lit. Observers at the succeeding sta tion will be on the watch for the smoke and at sight of it will light their own fire. This will set in motion the chain of signal bonfires. If the day is clear when Amundsen s t a r t s to fly across the pole it Is be lieved the bonfire signals wall work without a hitch and relay the news along the coast for 400 miles to Noor- vik within a few hours. Even If one or two breakdowns occur and the Es kimos have to make the connections by carrying the signal, it will still be possible to wdreless the news from Noorvik in time to give warning at Spitzbergen to the scout planes that •are to be there to render assistance if Amundsen meets with trouble on the latter part of his flight. After the ne-ws is sent out from Norvik by radio it can be relayed by radio, telegraph and cable to Spitz bergen. LED FIRST U. S. TROOPS IN EUROPE, AND LAST TO LEAVE Axuj. J. vv. L>ownei', u, £>. a ., com manded th e first U n ited S tates arm y unit to enter France, and returned with the very last troops to leave the Rhine. Major Downer sailed for France July 27, 1917, as commander of the Sixth field artillery, First divi sion, A. E. F., Battery A. He com manded the First and Second bat talions of the Sixth field artillery, which fired the first shot in the w'ar for America. At the seventh Olympic games. Antwerp, 1920. Major Downer was a member of the American riding team. He has been awarded virtually every war medal or cross of every one of the allied nations—D. S. G., Croix de Guerre, Belgian Military Cross, Monte negrin Order of Danilo; French Le gion of Honor, etc. DOG Fir^OS FAMILY RICHES Fortune, Considered a Myth, Dug Up Near Alabama Homestead. A dog, clawing frantically in a tower near an old homestead at Courtland, Ala., uncovered a priceless treasure chest filled with gold and silver coins and plate of the Saunders family, one of the most prominent families in the South “before the war.” Miss Jose phine Saunders of MempMs. Tenn., is heiress to the fortune, which for years has been considered a myth. According to an old family legend, an aged colored slave hid a chest of money and silver dn%ng the Civil war, then died of apoplexy before he could get hack to his master. Searches at intervals for 40 years brought no trace of the fortune, and the family dis m issed it as “an old mammy’s tale.” Miss Saunders has been inforiued that the find is authentic and that the value of the rrMcs is great. Gold coins, none of later date than 1860. and some dating back to 1790, were found in the treasure cheet* KEMAL'SBRIE BEFOJUEADER [yime. Kemal Pasha Makes Her Appearance. at Angora in Male Riding Costume. Angora.—One of the most laudable ^ims of the nationalist regime in Tur key is to emancipate the Turkish women, who enjoy none of the free dom or privileges accorded other women of the world. The foremost exponents of woman’s rights in Tur key are Halliday Edibe Hanum, a graduate of the American Girls’ col lege at Constantinople, and Mme. Kemal Pasha, the pretty nineteen- year-old bride of Mustapha Kemal Pasha, Halliday Edibe Hanum is already well known in the United States for her work as head of the Angora min istry of education and for her advo cacy of more rational customs affect ing Moslem women. Two of her sons are students at Ann Arbor, Mich. But Mme. Kemal Pasha is a new element in Turkish civic and political life. Angora got its first glimpse of the young reformer w'hen she re- tuiTied from Smyrna with her brilliant husband. Appears in Male Attire. Her sister Mohammedans lifted their somber veils in amazement as they saw her step from the train dressed as a man, with riding breeches, high boots, spurs and a jaun ty outing cap. It was evident that from the moment of her arrival she wished it to be emphasized that Mus tapha Kemal Pasha, in his campaign for the emancipation of Turkish worn; en, can count upon the full and active support of his wife. It Is not likely that Turkish women will discard their black skirts and shawls and their impenetrable veils for the unconventional masculine at tire of Mme. Kemal, but It Is certain that her advent will modify or great ly curtail the restrirtlons and obso lete customs prescribed for the women of Turkey by Mahomet. Mme. Kemal insists that the rules of conduct and dress prescribed by the stem founder of tlie Mohammedan faitli centuries ago are not tenable to day, and she intends to inject some western customs Into Turkish femi nine life. Kept in Seclusion. Before the inception of the nation alist movement Turkish women were kept in the closest seclusion, and were forbidden by their men to visit friends, dance or appear In public. Their lit eratu r e consisted of a cook book and a Koran. If they ever glanced at a man in public they were roundly chastised by their husbands. The severest order of nuns, could not have led more restrained lives. The Turkish woman was permitted out of her home only when she de sired to visit a mosque. Her horizon was limited to the four \valls of her home. But with the growth of the new Turkey all this Is changing, Turkish women gradually are being released from their domestic bondage and now and tlien are getting a glimpse of real life. They now appear on the streets and in places of entertainment In Con stantinople In almost as great num bers as foreign women. The time- honored veil, or yashmak, is disapi- pearlng. Turkish girls no longer cast furtive glances at the young men of the capi tal, but mingle with them freely. And the modern Moslem woman Insists that her husband shall have only one wife. Instead of three or four as for merly. SSE.- CIG ARETTES Doctors Are Amazed by Cure of Shattered Boy New York.—Surgeons of the Samari tan hospital in Brooklyn were elated over what they declared was the mirac ulous reconstruction of a shattered hu man body. The case is that of Sebastian RI ccoh bone, seventeen, who leaped five stories to escape a fire in Brooklyn on October 30. Biccobone was taken to the hospital with injuries which In cluded : Fractures of the spine, skull, pelvlsi, and right arm, paralysis of both legs', punctured bladder, and intestines and third degree burns on arras and body and hemorrhage in the spinal cord. R e c e n tly th e boy w alked—albeit haltingly. Dr. Marcus Scarle, assisted by Doc tors Barnet Aronson and Bernard Stat- ton, after X-raying his injuries, treated the burns and set the broken bones. Then Riccobone was placed in a cast. Slow’ly the spine, smashed skull and pelvis bones knit, and then the legs recovered from paralysis. Decides He’s Well; He Is. Worcester, Mass.—^After being con- rined at a hospital here two years, sup- 'osed to be suffering from an incur- u)le hip disease, Ednest Kinncri, elev- n, decided it was time to leave. He ■iked home to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. 'ohn Kinnarl. He was then officialb liscluirged from the hospital. ^'That ad’s right, sure as shootin’!” Enter, “the X-Ray Eye.” I.rf)ndon.—Two sons of a Spanish no- ieinan are gifted with “X-ray eyes,’ ecording to an article in the Madrid uparcial, quoted by the Dally Mall Tests have shovui that the youths’ bnormal vision enables them to read i jrough silver, brass or iron, but thcj J cannot see through porcelain or paper. That “V\-Shaped Vest. The V-shaped opening of a waist coat la really a piece of vanity, giving the wearer a chance to show what sort of shirt he wears. It originated In the days when linen was first worn, and the man who could sport a linen shirt was considered something of a “swell.\ He had the opening cut In his waistcoat so that all could see hIs elegance. Manhood’s Afterthought. When a man looks back and thinks of what a fool he was, he is glad there were no monkey glands to prolong his youth. Shallow Waters. When a man complains that no one understands him, it is highly probable that there is nothing In him worth stnd.vtnv.—Ro.«<toD Transcript, _______ TO BE SOLD AT COST SALE NOW GOING ON PORI JERVIS CO-OP. ASSOCIATION 92 FRONT STREET CLOSING OUT ENTIRE STOCK Consisting of Dry Goods, Shoes, Rubbers, Full Line of Choice Groceries, Canned Goods, Quart and Pint Fruit Jars, Store Fixtures, Show Cases, etc. Something to Fret About. | Thought for the Day. 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