Evening Star Newspaper, December 8, 1929, Page 101

and steering gear went out of commission. Since portions of the British torpedo had been scattered over the deck it became possible to ascertain that a British submarine had launched an 18-inch torpedo, manufactured in accordance with model 5 in the Royal British Torpedo Works. The projectile, as we could establish further, had been fired at a high velocity. What I should like to note particularly also is the fact that while our own torpedo rocm had been struck, the German torpedoes stored in it did not explode. Our material was in every respect of a superior kind. ‘The ship was repaired with the utmost speed. She returned to Libau, there to assume the arduous duty of standing guard befcre the Gulf of Finland. Three months later, on October 23, 1915, this very ship, in the gray dawn of morn- ing in front of Libau, was dealt a deadly blow by an enemy torpedo and went down with all on board. Only three survivors cculd be picked up by our torpedoboats. In the career of this armored cruiser it is pos- sible to read the nature of the submarine peril, yet it reveals likewise our own naval activity and efficiency in the Baltic. Iron endurance made it possible finally to master the British submarines in the Baltic Sea. Cocmmerce we made safe and our warships made good their purpose because our fighting forces were suffi- ciently at our disposal as well as our material means. Among our submarines, the U-9, the U-10, the U-17 and the submarine mine-laying boat UC-4 rendered exceptionally brilliant service in the Baltic against the Russian fleet. (Supplementary Note by Admiral von Mantey.) AT this point ends the succinct narrative of the commander-in-chief of Germany's fighting forces in the Baltic Sea. There should, however, be some mention in this place of a re- markable submarine episode. It did not, to be sure, occur in the Baltic, but it concerned inti- mately a member of the family of Prince Henry of Prussia. As a bit of personal experience it is unique of its kind. -V“l)azwz m the ELL all I know is just what I read in the Movie weeklies, or what I happen to run into as I prowl hither and thither. Was you ever down below sea level? Well I am like you, I thought the only way you could get down there was to 80 to Australia or some place on the under side of the ocean, or to go down below the level of the ocean in a submarine. But here a week or so ago I spent two or three days prowling around down below sea level, riding in cars, eat- * ing and sleeping in nice beautiful homes and all the time the ocean could have come right in and covered us up. Its in California. Everything is in Califor- nia, all the great sights of nature, and along with all these wonders we have out here the Worlds greatest collection of freak humans on earth. We maintain more freak religions and cults than all the rest of the world combined. Just start anything out here and if it’s cuckoo enough you will get followers. But its not of the alleged humans I am talking to you about now; its of the freaks of nature. Its down in whats called Imperial Valley. Some old Preacher © years ago named it. It was up to then called the Colorado desert. But he could see no reason why it shouldent be called the Imperial Valley. Well it was about like all desert valleys except you had to climb up hill to be able to see the Ocean, if there had been an ocean there, There is a good big lake down there and its THE, ‘SUNDAY ‘STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C, DJ,(],\[P'I,R ”.Q‘ 1929. o Sbbiinaia i The bent gun rail of this German submarine shows how closely it PS'(‘II[)('II from a direct hit fired by a British ship. This was one of the strangest incidents of the World War. A British torpedo fired at-the U-35 leaped out of the water and over the deck of the sub, so close that the men on deck stooped to avoid being hit. A scn of Prince Henry of Prussia, Prince Sigismund, entered the imperial Germany navy as a war volunteer in 1914. He found himsel{ with the rank of naval lieutenant and officer of the watch aboard the submarine U-35. This vessel was under the command of First Lieut. von Arnauld de la Perriere and its tour of duty extended from the port of Pola in th» Adriatic quite out into the Mediterranean. (I might menti:n, incidentally, that First Licut von Arnaul sunk altogether five hundred thousand tons in enemy ships.) This submarine U-35 left port on October 2, 1917, for a somewhat distant enterprise in the western Mediterranean. She got through the line of the enemy craft closcly guarding the Straits of Otran‘o only to be followed by six British destroyers. These, too, she gave the slip, although she was well plied with water bombs. 2 In the further stages of this voyage, which otherwise do not call for special mention, she sank in a single mcnth eight big steamers and three sailing ships, making a total of some thirty €housand tons. On the 6th of November this submarine was on her return journey. In due time she got close to her home port and proceeded to ride upon the surface cf the seas. Two officers, among them , Prince Sigismund, were in the conning tower on the watch. All at once a torpedo flew. It had been launched from an enemy submarine against the German boat. Aboard our own vessel orders went with lightning speed to the machine roora and to the steersman. It would, notwithstand- ing, have been impossible to avert a catastrophe if a higher power had not providentially swayed the destiny of the submarine. ‘The tor- pedo took a vacillating course while yet it was in the deep water. Then it leaped quite sud- denly out of the sea when it was directly be- fore its goal. Aloft it sailed high cver the boat and so close to the conning tower that the of- ficers there had to stoop to get out of the way. This fact has so incredible a ring that hore it is proper to make an extract from the log. “The torpedo,” declares the ship’s journal, “two meters ahead of the boat leaped out of the water with a cutting sound of its propellers. It emerged between the torpedo tube and the conning tower and went right over the bcat across the breakwater, at the same time bending in the starboard gun rail and tearing out a steel pillar. It even touched the middle peri- scope before it splaShed over the port side into the water. The enemy launched a second tor- pedo that flew beneath the submarine. Next he let go a third that went forward. Finally came the fourth that proved to be a dud by go- ing around in a circle. The sort of faces made by the enemy as we sped clear through his mass torpedo fire there is at hand, unfortu- nately, no photograph to reveal.” (Copyright, 1929, in North and South America.) Bottom of the Sea” — — By ill Rogers The Author-Comedian Writes of California, Matking Particular Mention of One So-Called “Garden Spot.” all salt, for years ago the ocean used to be in there. But the real estate men and the Cham- ber of Commerce passed a resolution and either it or them had to get out. Well the Lord saw that while he might be able to handle nature, He couldent do anything with California real estate men. It was a new form of pestilence that He had never encountered before, So He just washed His hands of the whole thing, picked up His ocean and took it down into Mexico, where they appreciated Gods original handiwork, and the Preachers were not selling Real Estate. Well that just left em the place where the ocean had been. DID you ever look at a place where an ocean had just been? I doubt if you ever did, for very few communities do things on that big a scale like they do cut here in California. It takes real enterprise to move an ocean. They left a little of it there to show that they were not as big a liars as the rest of country gen- erally suppose them to be. This Salton Sea is evidence. The Salton Sea is something like the Commemorating St. Albans. Continued from Third Page lous and important in the diocese and has watched its development in the history of the District through the 75 years. During the Civil War the. congregation is recorded as divided in sentiment between the North and the South, but as never falling out seriously on that account. When the rector, Rev. Willlam Christian, resigned in 1864, a resolution was adopted by the congregation to the effect that in all the trying days of the war he had spoken only the gospel of love. As the edifice was on a road much used by soldiers there were many evidences of the war to stir emotions. By 1874 St. Albans began the missionary activities that have grown with the years. The first mission was in Tenleytown. This mission since has developed into the large and flourish- ing parish of St. Columba’s, with an imposing edifice of its own, and now independent of St. Albans. A mission for colored people also was founded in Tenleytown by St. Albans and given the name of St. George’s. All Souls Church, on Cathedral avenue, developed from a mission founded years ago on Garfield street by St. Albans. At present St. Albans has two missions, St. David’s, on the Conduit road, and St. Patrick’s, on the Foxhall road. The latter is believed to have been the first Protestant chapel in the United States named for St. Patrick. The naming of all the missions of St. Albans is associated with the British Isles, thus, St. Albans representing England, St. David’s, Wales; St. Columba’s, Scotland, and St. Pa’- ick’s, Ireland. THE original church of St. Albans still stands, but was incased in stone, as it now ap- pears to the observer. The church plant in- cludes two large, modern guild halls for parish social and benevolent work, and there is an exceptionally large Sunday school. In 1914 St. Albans adopted an auxiliary vestry act, giv- ing unusual powers of sglf-government to its missions, and this act since has been used widely as a model by other parishes. In 1902, as illustrating the progressive feel- ing in the parish, an entertainment was given in St. Columba’s mission, at which time mov- ing pictures, then in their infancy, were shown. The coronation of King Edward VII and a film- ing of “Cinderella” were the pictures exhibited. When the World War came, with American participation, St. Albans did much work for the soldiers. There was a large camp of Engineers nearby, in the vicinity of American University, affording many opportunities for service. St. Albans has a service flag, with 126 stars, rep- resenting men who entered the military or naval forces. Four of them died in France. Out of St. Albans have gone missionaries to foreign lands. One, Right Rev. Norman Bin- sted, rose to the rank of bishop in Japan. He was consecrated bishop at a ceremony in Wash- ington, in 1928. The woman members of St. Albans pay his salary, as they do of a woman missionary in China, though ordinarily such expenses are met by the general church mis- sionary board. Among gifts to St. Albans was one of a ches‘nut board from St. Albans Cathedral in England. The litany desk in St. Albans here was made from this board, which is said to be more than 1,000 years old. St. Patrick’s Angli- can Cathedral, in Dublin, Ireland, sent carved stone from which the baptismal font in St. Patrick’s missicn here was made. Besides Dr. Wales as chairman, the other members of the committee on history of St. Albans are: Peter Bisset, Dr. W. Sinclair Bowen, N. E. Brooke, W. B. Clarkson, James E. Eckloff, Mrs. James E. Eckloff, Mrs. W. H. Evans, Miss Thelka Fundenberg, C. C. Glover, jr.; Mrs. F. E. Middleton, sr.; Mrs. Thomas H. Stevens, B. F. Taylor, Corcoran Thom, Mrs. H. E. Weaver, R. D. Weaver and Philip Young. The wardens of St. Albans are, senior, Peter Bisset, and junior, P. B. Fletcher. 'The vestry includes H. N. Brawner, jr.; W. L. Browning, Dr. William Earl Clark, G. B. Craighill, Victor B. Deyber, G. A. Emmons, G. R. Wales and E. M. Weeks. The officers are: C. H. Korts, treasurer; G. L. Millard, assistant; J. E. Eck- loff, debt treasurer; John Brewer, register, and Caspar Wistar Haines, bursar, Dead Sea only this one is not mentioned in the, Bible (except in the California revised de luxe edition). The Dezad Sea got a lot of publicity in those days on account of its odd name. Everybody wanted to see it and wondered what it died of, and how long it would stay dead. Its the sea that the then Kaiser Wilhelm went down on, on one of his big new Battleships and of course it couldent get up to the dock. So in- stead of going ashore in a small boat or lighter, he just stepped out on the ocean and started to walk ashore. He had heard that this feat had been performed years ago by another great man (if any of you havent read the original book, there is no use of my continueing with this narrative). Well it seems that the Kaiser had kinder overestimated his aquatic feats and after they had fished him out, to show that while he had perhaps suffered humiliation, and perhaps contracted pheunomonia, he still re- tained his egotism, for he immediately remarked, “I dont believe the other man did it either.” That was on the Dead Sea, but as time goes ajong and as California historians get going good our Grandchildren will perhaps be taught that both events took place just eight miles west of Calapatria, Imperial Valley, California, in Ed Vails horse pasture. This town of Calapatria was named by tak- ing a part of two famous historical names. The Cal comes from Calvin Coolidge’s first name of Calvin, and the Patria comes from the last part of Cleo-patria, a woman who I am sorry to see Mr. Coolidge get mixed up with. The next town they establish down there will be called Hershe. The Her will, of course, come from Herbert (Mr. Hoover’s given name), and the She will be from Sheba's, one of the best advertised queens. Her and She, Hershe, after Herbert and her majesty. But you want to do down there, where there used to be whales swimming around, scratching their stomachs on the bottom, where now there iz real estate offices, cafeterias and department store druggists. AND fertile—say, you ain't seen nothing yet. They can raise anything. It's another Rogers County, Okla., as far as productivity is concerned. That county and valley of the E-u-f-r-p-h-a—I can’t spell it. I will just make it the Nile; that’s easy to spell and maybe just as fertile as that hard one. Cottcn is one of the big things. Half the linen goods we buy is made from Imperial Valley cotton. And ‘their grapefruit is every day squirting on wealthier and more immoral families all over our land. Of course, it gets hot there in the Summer. But only for those who are able to get out. For those who can't afford to leave, “why, it’s really not bad at all. It's hot, but there is no humidity; so we really dont mind it at all, and wont till we get anough to get out.” But when the Chamber of Commerces in these other towns have seen what can be done with the bottom of an ocean, why, I can see 'em moving them all over the country. But you got to hand it to California for starting it. But if you have never bten below sea level, you just ought to go down and see what all they have—luncheon clubs and mortgages and everything even below sea level. (Copyright, 1929.) Sand and Gravel Markets. THE sand and gravel business, which to the popular mind consists of sending out a truck or two and gathering a load on some un- occupled site along a river or in a rolling field, is In reality a complicated undertaking requir- ing the information of a geologist and a care- ful survey of market conditions. The launching of a new sand and gravel proj- ect must take into consideration whether the deposits to be worked are of river or glacial operation; whether, in the case of river deposits, there has been much flood water involved; and, in the case of glacial deposits, how far the deposits have been carried and over what kind of intervening rock from the point of origin. With these important questions out of the way, the new project’s backers must be assured that the proposed market can not only take care of its present supplies but also absorb enough from the new project to make the undertaking economically sound. - Sand and gravel are disintegration products of various rocks. Disintegration starts with the solution of various mineral constituents of the rock by surface waters and is assisted by the disruptive action of freezing. Abrasion during transportation by running water and glacial action does the rest, producing pieces which vary from boulders to fine silt. Flood conditions in streams, of course, have much to do with the assortment of sizes of the sand and gravel, and ruin the natural “screening” prccess of the normal flow of the water. Glaciers may have started off with quantities of hard rock, such as basalt, granite and quart- zite, and then picked up limestone, sandstone and shale, mixing them unevenly. These things make the use of geological maps vital in the opening of prospective sand and gravel deposits, ” The largest four markets for sand and graw, of course, are concrete aggregate, road material, railroad ballast and building sand. In the case of the last mentioned, the demands are growing much more strict and washed sang is required, sand that will be clean and hard. Other uses for sand are in water filtration systems, brass and steel foundries, glass in- dustries and railroad and traction lines for use on slippery tracks, Few Divorces in Georgia. WHEN Georgians marry they intend to stay marrisd, divorce statistics for the year 1928 reveal. Many counties in the State re- port no-divorces at all, while many others report but a single divorce each. The counties reporting no divorces and the number of marriages performed follow: Banks, 74; Bleckley, 126; Brantley, 63; Cale houn (second year consecutively), 200; Came den, 56; Catoosa (second year), 42; Dade, 68; Echole (second year), 40; Heard (second year), 73; Lee, 91; McIntosh (second year), 68; Murs= ray, 71; Talbot, 98; Taylor, 127, and Twiggs (second year), 104. The counties reporting but a single divorce follow: Appling, 189; Atkinson, 51; Brooks, 284; Butts, 89; Chattahoochee, 12; Coffee, 295; Columbia, 63; Dawson, 36; Early, 221; Fannin, 66; Fayette, 70; Jasper, 95; Long, 47; Macon, 189; Madison, 172; Pickens, 79; Pike, 111; Quit- man, 146, and Wilcox, 151. Fulton County had the most divorces witly 877 for 3,461 marriages, b s el