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A report from Berlin suggests that have decided to
Herr Hiller may
SUBMARINE GRIN AND BEAR IT
DISASTERS
AND THE STEPS THAT CAN BE TAKEN TO RESCUE CREWS
OR MANY years ex- with water until it is át a lovel periments in the about half way up the bag with members of the crew standing. rescue of persons The crew then charge their from sunken submarines bags with oxygen until the have been carried out by pressure inside and out is about various countries. The the same. American Navy uses Placing the clip over the nose "diving bell," and Britain and mouth to the mouthpiece, has the Davis Submarine they then begin breathing, whereupon the hatches are | Escape Apparatus..
:
Three years ago it was report- opened fully and it is possible to float to the surface of the water. ed that Germany was not
As the pressure of the water neglecting the problem and
decreases upon coming near to
and carried out a number of the surface, so is it possible by
experiments.
means of an automatic exhaust The most ingenious invention valve to decrease the pressure was designed not only to rescue inside the gas bags,
the men from the sunken sub- On the surface of the water marine, but to provide them the gas bag can be used as a with a boat when they reached life-belt.
the surface.
A steel boat was built, bottom up, into the deck caging of a submarine.
This boat did not flood when the submarne dived and access was had to it from the inside of the pressure hull proper by means of an emergency hatch. When below water, the boat was released, shot to the surface and turned the right way up.
Another device considered by
postpone any action over Danzig the Germans has the develop. until after the Nuremberg rally in ment of the system of letting September, though he may then de-surface vessels know the where- mand that it be handed over to Ger-
abouts of a unken submarino. many.
by
If this report is confirmed events, it probably means that the Fuchrer has realised that the Danzig question is not simply
episode, Involve him in war.
When
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By Lichty
ARNICE
ALES
SUMMER HATS
“If Madam cares to wait, the salesgirls should be done trying on the now models very shortly!"
the Queen
meets Mrs. Roosevelt
REPORT ON THE ROYAL VISIT FROM LONDON'S| NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT DON IDDON
New York. meet the King and Queen. THERE are only two
The Queen and Mrs. Roosevelt will make a brilliant pair. We think the conversation will be prolonged..
Secretary of State Cordell of man behind the international
T topics in the town just muiz, Governor-General
First there is Lord Tweeds-Hull, gentle and white-haired-
now; one is the World's Fair:
SOME time ago, Italian ship the other-well, it goes like this: Canada, a tall, lean Scotsman, trade pacts and his wife will one of the yards were experimenting on a "Yessir," says the man with the who has turned his agile mind also spend considerable time right of a few thousand Germans to submarine lift in which the yellow shoes, peering at the from creating mystery stories as with the King and Queen. Mr. Hull, one of the most popular Buchan ("Thirty-Nine enter the Reich, but that it is a highly man to be rescued entered a dissolving ice in his highball John
men in his country, is quiet and complicated issue Involving far-water-tight steel cylinder which glass, "I guess we are all set for Steps" and the rest) to govern-modest, not unlike the King in the King and Queen. Geel what reaching economic and political con- connected with a life device fitted a reception they'll get. Lind- ment administration...
temperament and demeanour. Lord Tweedsmuir is, they will Then there are Mr. Roosevelt's siderations, and that if he attempted to the bottom of the submarine. bergh's will be nothing to it. tell you in Canada, the most other Cabinet Ministers, the to settle it in the dictaterial spirit This was raised to the surface We'll all go haywire." which he showed over Czecho- by means of a steel cable and the
Round the bridge tables the popular Governor-General that Justices of the Supreme Court, the Generals and Admirals—all Slovakia it might, unlike the Czech lift was afterwards returned to women chatter. They're such Dominion has ever had.
distinguished men And there is his charming and the the submarine for another man. a nice couple. So natural. I'm
sure they'll like us." At the talented wife-a very gracious Washington. Danzig is a town with 1 pre-
village crossroads, in the great lady. They will entertain the British Ambassador Sir Ronald dominantly German population, but
department stores of the cities, King and Queen at Rideau Hall, Lindsay and his American-born it lies. at the mouth of Poland's only
in wife Lady Lindsay, too, will outlet to the sen,- and -nny-Great-A-SUCCESSFUL demonstra. the people are talking-"they the Governor's residence Power with control of Danzig would tion of the Davis Submarine tell me the King's an expert ten- Ottawa fine old house with have an important role during-
the visit. nis player .. yes, the Queen's splendid grounds. trade. Escape Apparatus was held in favourite colour is bluc-I saw Recognising these facts, the Allied 1984, at the Naval Dockyard in it in the paper."
Then there is Mr. Mackenzie Tall and angular, a man of statesmen made it a free city.
King, Canada's Prime Minister, few words, Sir Ronald is the Hongkong.
In the buses and the subways, who will accompany their stage version British Ambassa Danzig has also to be considered
at the street corners, and in the Majesties throughout the visit, dor come to, life, and the parties in the context of Nazi military A large tank fitted with s
skyscraper offices the talk goes Including the trip to the United at the British Embassy are the ambitions. After the rape
of submarine conning tower was on...the King and Queen are States. He la a bachelor and most glittering in Washington. Czecho-Slovakia the Nazis were used for the purpose of schooling coming.
officers and men attached to the
be able to strangle Polish
able to
dominate the whole of Poland's long western and southern
frontiers. The addition of the submarine arm of the China Memelland to East Prussia made it Fleet.
sportsman.
In New York the King, and Down Broadway
Most of the Canadian arrange-Queen will meet stocky, dynamic ments of the tour Mr. Mackenzie Mayor LaGuardia, a dark, in- are YES, we
excited. King planned personally. tense little man whose brooding possible for them to threaten the A description of the Davis
There has, after all,
Then there are the mayors face lights up with laughter. Inever been a state visit by the (and their wives) of all the unexpectedly as he shoots out a frontier as well. But one link was Submarine Escape Apparatus King and Queen to Canada and Canadian cities and towns the wisecrack. It is quite certain he missing in the chain. That link was and of the drill in connection America. They are subjects for King and Queen will visit, the will wisecrack with the King.
with its use was given shortly photographs and articles and chiefs of police, the judges, the
greater part of Poland's northern
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If the Nazis had control of Danzig after the Poseidon Disaster by on speeches, history book people, to industrialists and, of course, they could reduce Poland to economic officer of one of the Australian this side of the world. Now we all the members of the Canadian and political vaasalage. With Poland submarines Oxley and Otway. are going to see them-nothing Cabinet.
less than a personal appearance.
Wonder Woman
Official Greeter FINALLY Mr.
Grover Whalen, President of the New York World's Fair. Mr. Whalen will be in his element.
Impotent they would greatly minimise the risk of a war on
The apparatus is manufac two fronts.
Of course, Canada, by virtue They could then give their sole at-tured by Seife Gorman, the well-of her Dominion status, gets the tention to the West, and neither known diving engineers, and was lion's share of the Visit, but IN the United States Presi- He has held the job of Official France nor Britain could view the brought into use in 1929. It is there is no hard feeling about dent Franklin D. Roose Greeter to New York in the future with anything but apprehen-now employed throughout the that. Only right and proper. velt and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt past, bowing his supple, imma- But their Majesties are spending will play the part that Lord and culate person to other royalties, In short, what is at stake at the submarine service; each mem-five whole days in the United Lady Tweedsmuir will enact in to dukes and duchesses, to ocean mouth of the Vistula is not only ber of the crew, being provided States-Washington, Now York, Canada. Mr. Roosevelt has flyers and scientists. He is well the future of Danzig but whether with the equipment.
sion.
Europe by fear of their armed strength:
different from the one
Tho
the World's Fair, worthy of probably more personal charm rehearsed. When the King and the Nazis are to be in a position The first trials were carried ranking as a separate city, and that all the rest of the world's Queen visit his Fair his cup will
be brim full. whence they will be able to dominate out in the service in 1930. It the Hyde Park country all will leaders put together.
was claimed then that the be visited. Good times are un-
So, of course, will the Fair, for He radiates it. He is the If Herr Hitler lins taken a deci-apparatus would be effective doubtedly ahend.
master of the happy phrase, the day when their Majesties sion not to force. the issue now, from 300 to 400 feet.
Which part of New York-the boyish and irrespressible the visit it will be the highlight of that decision may well be a crucial Poseidon Disaster was the first they will visit is troubling us at all that he will completely all else will be anticlimax.
wonder city of this hemisphere perfect host. There is no doubt the exposition. After that. one for peace or war. It is true that occasion on which the escape just a little. Now what New fascinate the King and Queen.
Well, there you have the more the postponement of any action is apparatus was demonstrated. Yorkers would like is a grand He is looking forward with important personalities, and we accompanied by a threat which may mature in the autumn but by that The apparatus is fashioned parade through the streets of tremendous enthusiasm to en-have told you what the people" time the situation will..be very much the same as a gas mask. Manhattan, preferably downtertaining them in. the White are thinking and saying. So all
span House-spick and
and that remains now is for the visit which led The gas bag hangs over the chest Broadway. Britain and France to give way to a and is strapped to the body by
The King and Queen, Presi-decorated for the occasion. to get under way and that, as threat last September.
dent Roosevelt and Mrs. Roose
For the President's wife the we say, "won't be long now," means of belts round the neck volt, in an open car, gliding visit will be the crowning event. The problem of Danzig is un- doubtedly one which ought to be and waist, leaving the head and slowly past the massed thou of her life as First Lady of the WORM GULPED FOR settled by negotiatlon, but in view body entirely free for movement. sands, through a blizzard of United States. Mrs. Roosevelt of the British Government's past
50 CENTS Goggles can be worn and there torn-up ticker tape and a storm is something of a wonder woman. record, any offer of Its services must is a "Pinch" for the nostrile. At of telephone book confetti. She writes a daily newspaper
Turlock, Cal. Inevitably recall the Rùnciran mis-
They'd like that, though there'll column, lectures three times a Paychiatrists who diagnosed the sion to Czocho-Slovakia and the the base of the bag,
recent nationwide goldna swallow- calamitous course of events which small cylinder of oxygen is fitted/De no grumbles if it can't bo week, holds Press conferences, ing eplaenic as being due to exhibi-
arranged.
makes a dozen speeches a month, tianian" overlooked the cash motive, Bachelor Premier
opens exhibitions, and lays Sammy Edgar, high school student, corner-atoncs during her lunch hold up an angleworm and offered to PERHAPS you would hour, files almost everywhere, swallow it for 50; cents. Ten of his schoolmates quickly ananced the like to know about the and still has time to look after affair by chipping in 10 cents each. compartment is gradually flooded leading personalities who will her husband and family,
and the worm went down.
a
with chemical purifiers are also in use."
2
The service drill is on the
succeeded it
Any solution of the Danzig question must be freely reached without threat or pressure and it must do full justice to Poland as well as to Ger- following lines: The submarines
mony.
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