Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 3, 1919, Page 3

SYSTEM-USED IN SINKING U-BOATS Navy Officer Reveals How Depth Bombs Are Directed to Their Ma(k. WAR 'ssc’n"ns OUT AT LAST Tactics Worked Out at.the Direction of Admiral SImp—Veauln Change Course at Regnllr Timed S Intervals. .Newport, R. L—With the assem-] bling of the largest class in the his- tory of the war college, which when it s fairly under way will number 60 officers. of high rank in the navy, there has been brought to Newport .many participants in the world war. Many of these officials feel perfectly at _bhome in Newport, having at various times been connected with the naval station here. . Capt. Willlam W, Phelps, who is now on the staff of 'Rear Admiral Sims at the college, has ltved in Newport twice. Captain Phelps’ last command wu one of the largest ships In the navy, the transport Leviathan, and-in- this connection he spoke interestingly of the transportation of the thousands of our troops from New York to Brest. Although strict censorship prevailed during the war relative to this hazard- ous service, it is now -permissible .to’ Navigating to Avoid U-Boats. Here are a few facts Captals Phelps related: During a voyage the Leviathan's ~ course would be changed at regular intervals, from port to starboard, making a wide zigzag. In daylight she would steam at 22 knots. Off the bow on each side, and likewise off the stern, would : be: destroyers, making four close to the big ship. These de- stroyers also at timed intervals would v,/ ‘zigzag, but in shorter turns, first to- \i wards the ship, and then away from it. Then guns were trained, and depth bombs were ready to go down the - \f'sllde. Steaming at 30 knots, just “ghead of the transport, would be an- " # other destroyer, making sharp zigzag directly across her path. Her speed would be so great that she woufid have . to slow down to yse her deck guns, ~as volumes of water would come over ~her prow. In the distance would be “gtill another destroyer, five miles - ahead, also. running on time and act- *:Ing as_a Scout, or like the pickets in :‘the army. act time, so as to -eliminate” any hance for collision. Captain Phelps id that at night, running at high s possible ;without collision. - ng twilights (i the HoMthsteamship ne, which sbmetimes lasted until ~afterwards the northern lights would make it possible for the dreaded sub- soarines to see the big transport wit N /$out themselves being discernible, ; Mnde Fastest Trip. Captain Phelps’ has the distinetior ~of making:the fastest- round trip on ~.x'ecord when, with the transport “Great Northern last July, he went Zfrom Sandy Hook to Brest,. unloaded “his troops and returned to New York in 14 days, 4%: hours. . The sea was Zfavorable for this record, which has ‘only been exceeded at any time but once, when.in December, 1913, on & - special Christmas trip, the Maure- -‘tania ‘'made the same transatlantic voyage | in just 14’days. ‘When the trips across-the . Atlantlc < with the big troop ships began there - were many tactics worked out, emannt— ~:ing from Vice Admiral, Sims. One qt these was depth bomb _practice, Jjiist ‘-a8 the battleships have target prac Ztice. One of these.explosives. sef oft 2800 yards from the big ship Leviathan :was sufficlently powerful to shake and jar her, yet it must be remem- bered that the effect on a vessel on top of the water Is different from the effect upon one submerged. It lifts ~~~* up the vessel on top, in much the way a huge wave would, but it crushes the underseas craft with pressure. How do you make sure of getting -'m submarine with a depth bomb? Cap- ~.¢ain Phelps was asked. Captain Phelps -explained ; that a destroyer would steam at top speed in a circle around “the spot in which the U-boat was seen, and drop a bomb every few = yards. The speed of the surface craft ~48 80 much greater than the other that .~ = when the circle.is completed it 1is -. positive that one of the bombs did its *.work, for, whichever way the under- _sea craft turns, she cannot get oat ot the ctrcle. Eats a Thousand Insects a Day. “A cliff swallow will.eat u thousand files, mosquitoes, wheat midgets or bee- tles that injure fruit trees in a day and -therefore is to be encouraged,” says the American Forestry association of Washington. “This bird is also known as the cave #wallow, because it plasters. its nest ~-on the outside of a barn or other build- Ing up under the eaves. Colonies of #everal thousand will build their nests Jdogcther on the side of a cliff. These nests shaped like a flattened gourd water bottleé are made of bits of cla rolled'Jutp pellets and liped with stra gg,ltmthen. This bird. winters in the tropics.” B aa THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 3, 151 . speak of the work of these transports.}: All zigzags were made.accordipg to i ed without, lights, the timipg made stCagaded Rotrs+were ths |~ | i 1'ten ofclock, and .frequently .for honrs | : THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER woMEN PREY QF LONEUNESS‘ hrmmln;.ly retrospective passion. Men Lendon Writer Says Thn Is the Cause of Their Tireless and Cease- less Toll. Men are amazingly and amusingly ignorant with respect to the mysterious lite led by their mothers, wives, daugh- ters and aunts. For years ac a time a man may go on blindly with his work and_ his play and remain In total igno- rance about the activities of these inex- plicable beings., He is dimly and dubi- ously aware that they are not idle. In his paroxysms in intuition he guesses that his ‘comfort and even his happi- ness 1n some fashion may depend upon their labors. But the greater part of his .existence is passed in a sublime iguoring of all the immense miracles’ wrought by women avery day of his lite. ‘I have come to the conclusion that women are the loneliest of God’s crea- tures, and that their loneliness is the great first cause of their tireless and ceaseless toll, James Douglas writes in London Opinion. Nearly every woman goes about with a lonely look on her face and the older she grows the lone- ler she looks. There are very few lonely men, for men are gregarious. They are also, upon the whole, less imaginative thap women. They live more on the surface. They do not pos- mess that quality of power of living a secret inner life of contemplation and Itve in and for the hour; woman lives in and for the past and the tuture. They are at war with their environ- ment. Like Norah In “The Dolls House,” they are always waiting for the miracle to happen. One seldom sces the print of tragic intensity on & man’s face. One seldom sees anything else on a woman's. [t is ‘this veiled tumult of the soul that drives women Into frantic and feverish labors. Rxtorminating Pests. Uncle Sam employs approximately 800 professional trappers and hunters to assist western stockmen In exter- minating wild predatory animals from the range country, These hunters have killed 70,713, predatory animals in the last three years, which has re- sulted in a direct saving estimated at nearly 5% million dollars a year to the stockmen of the Rocky Mountain section. The total kill consisted of 60,473 coyotes, 8,094 bobcats, 1,820 wolves, 201 mountain lions and 137 bears. The pelts of the animals kill- ed were sold for approximately $100,- 000, which, of course, is of consider- able aid to the government . in financ- ing the work. 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