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of her L) cpeaks several 8 WHEELS T0 GUDE POLAR SUB BOAT Wilkins Expedition Will Have Attachments for Bat- tling Ice. By the Associated Press. 3 NEW YORK, August 9—When Hu- bert Wilkins' submarine sails under the fce to the North Pole next Summer, what will protect her from crashing into subsurface blocks of ice? This question, always the first asked about this project, was put to Lieut. Comdr. Sloan Danenhower, who, with Simon Lake, the submarine builder, will rebuild the United States Navy subma- rine O-12 for the voyage and himself sail_her under the polar ice. The answer is a law of nature, the operation of which Comdr. Danenhower found for himself last Summer at the bottom of Long Island Sound in th tiny submarine Defender. It is an ac- tion of buoyancy, which, he said, even few naval men have realized. Protection From Damage. The, Defender had wheels to run jon . the bottom. I'ut when she hit a rock the wheels seemed to be rubber balls, bouncing her easily upward out of harm's way. Her weight was close to nothing— that is, just & little heavier than the water. She was not greatly different from a balloon bouncing along. The same principle, with the wheel over the sub's back and the bouncing done downward, will be used under the fce. The wheel will Tun on a stocky trolley above the conning tower. The Jower end of the trolley arm' will be pivoted like an automobile shock-ab- sorber within the sub. The ship's buoyancy will be about | 2000 pounds, sufficient to keep her trolley bumping lightly along the under surface of ice. A protective arch—called a jumper bar, like a wartime net protective de- vice—will curve above her back from Bow to stern. Comdr. Danenhower said she wil be strong enough to withstand collisions at 4 knots an hour—the high- est underwater speed contemplated. Crags and Rafts Missing. Even s0, the sub is not made to crash fcebergs nor the underwater ice crags called “rafts.” These obstacles are not believed to exist in the polar sea. In their request to the Navy for the 0-12 Wilkins and Danenhower wrote: “There are no icebergs of great size within the Arctic. Large pressure ridges have been observed only near the coast and the deepest of these extend not more than 100 feet under sea lvel.” The O-12 can descend 200 feet. bergs come from glaciers far south of the Fole and float always southward. Borings by Nansen in the ice pack of this ocean showed the average thickness 10 feet. “No one has yet seen great, un- broken ice floes in that sea during Summer,” the letter says. Wilkins be- Heves it will not. even be necessary to rise in tPe ‘leads,” dangerous places which wind closes like jaws. He says floes always have quiet air epenings in their interfors and but a few miles apart. Telescoping Conning Tower. There will be a telescoping conning tower capable of thrusting upward through 10 feet of pack ice. There will be a new kind of periscope capable of boring upward through 50 feet of ice to get air for men and batteries. There will be an gjr lock in the sub's bottom for divers to step out into the halt-mile or more depth of water be- lieved to cover the polar bottom. These divers will climb the sub's side by lad- ders, equipped with underwater lamps for exploring, and in emergency with explosives to be fastened beneath the ice and set off from « distance with wires. Two forward torpedo tubes will be turned into high power eyes with spe- elaily penetrating lamps, and two other forward tubes into observation rooms. Tce- FRENCH WINE TARIFFS RESIST ALL PROTESTS Portyguese Vintage Practically Barred Under New Schedule. Surplus Faces Producers. LISBON (#).—Diplomatic notes, pro- test meetings and threats of retaliation have left Paris unmoved in her attitude toward Portuguese wines, which, under the new French tariff, are practically barred from France. ‘The home market is now trying to bsorb a huge wine surplus, estimated - at more than 2,000,000 gallons. A vig- orous campaign is being organized for increased wine consumption both in Portugal and abroad. Wine dealers are trying to persuade restaurants and hotels to return to the practice of including wine with the fixed-price meals or to charge extra if no wine is ordered. ‘The fight to repeal the eighteenth amendment in the United States is watched with the greatest interest. The papers acclaim every victory of oppo- nents of the American dry laws. Soviet Mortality Drops. MOSCOW (#)—Offictal figures claim that mortality in Soviet Russia dropped in 1929 to 18.2 a thousand of popula- tion, the lowest in a century. Child mortality decreased to 167 a thousand for infants under 1 year, claimed to be the lowest rate in the world. GIFTED WO MISS MARIE ON AMERICAN Humorist Declares Nothing but Talk HOLLYWOOD, Calif, August 9 (N.AN.A)—This is a journalistic cu- riosity. | It is an interview with Will Rogers, | the first he has given in Hollywood, and | one of the few Teal interviews he has given anywhere. Special Dispatch to The Star. ‘ to permit some one to interview him. | Why should he give to some other writer that which he can sell? In Hollywood, Will has all the sur- roundiags of a “big shot.” There is 2 | conspiracy to see that he gets privacy | and plenty of it. | Will Is Skittish. | i “I've gotta be kinda skittish about in- | terviews,” he sald. ““You see, out here | | in Hollywiid the woods are full of people | | that learned to write but evidently | can't read. If they could read their | stuff they'd stop writing. I don't know how I'd ever face the family if I ever let one of these here gushy movie gals get me in one of the fan magazines.” The first thing to learn about Will Rogers is that he is canny and shrewd. He will pursue a bargain with a per- sistence born of years of horse trading. Like any other actor in Hollywood he remakes scenes that do not prove as good as expected. Those who prepare the script for & Rogers talkie write all the lines except those Will is to speak. In his speeches | they indicate the plot action that must | be advanced by his dialogue. The company gets up in its lines and then Will proceeds to work. Thinking Up His Movie Gags. Will goes through the scenes and adds what wise cracks he thinks will fit in. | He does not remember lines word for word, because he gets self-conscious when he tries to remember set speeches. “Sometimes I do think up a gag on the spur of the moment,” he says. “When I do I stick it in. If it's any good they leave it. If it isn't they make me do it over.” The thing that occasions the long delays in making Will Rogers Pictum is business, not temperament. If a dam is being opened in Utah, Will goes out to look at it. If endurance fiyers are | spinning in Chicago, Will is on hand to squint upward with the crowd. He never has permitted the movies to supersede in importance his interest in himself as a national critic and ob- server. He’s traveling all the time. He talks with Swede farmers in Minnesota and the workers in the irrigation ditches of New Mexico. He doesn’t spend much time loitering in the congressional offices of Wash- ington, but he spends a great deal listening to the straphangers of Kansas. | Have to Be Funny to Stay. | “Most_people' think of me as a | man,” Will says. “You have w“b: 1!urmy to keep ’em listening and read- | ing. " But I try to give 'em more than | gags. I'm just an ignorant fellow with- |out any education—so to speak—but I | try to know what I'm talkin' about. I | joke to the public, but I do a lot of | studyin’ because although I might hand {flllt foolishness I don't want to hand | out stuff that might be misleadin’. | ‘When I ? to a national convention I have to know what they're talkin’ | about "to know what's funny. I'm | travelin’ all the time and I'm doin’ my | best to understand what I see. I'm not takin' sides, but I'm askin’ questions. If I was just a clown Borah and Reed and Mellon and all those fellows wouldn’t take trouble to explain what they're drivin’ at to me. We joke, but we h:lve a lot of serious conversation. They're always anxious to know what the pe«_)ple I've _been talkin’ to are thinkin’ about. I never worked harder in my life than at tha : armament Conterencerr . onoon Dis Poking Fun at the Mighty. “You make pretty free with | names of the great’” it was suggesto 1&0"" rs. “How do you get by with o TT1 tell you how I get by,” he sal | “I get by because I ain't = anything. | 1 ain’t selling anything, I ain't arguin’ for anything, I ain't got a remedy for nothin’. That's what puts me over. If I get off a joke at the expense of the Drys, they know I ain't trying to repeal prohibition. If I think the Wets look funny, they know I ain't goin’ to say the country ought to be run by the Ax?f.l-B‘lpon League the next minute. T ain’t tryin’ to cram anything down | the public’s throat. All I'm doin’ is ,mlk'ln. Anybody that don't like it |don’t have to listen to it. I tune off en‘!llly, an’ that's a great comfort. ‘The minute a man takes a side in |anything he’s no humorist, he ain't | even a philosopher. The country needs | somebody that’s got enough tolerance not to be for anything too much. Some- body that can see somethin’ good in the Wets without thinkin’ all the Drys are | hypocrites, somebody who can see some- | thin’ good in the Drys without sayin’ every Wet is a bum and a lost sinner. Laughs at All of ’em. | “Iain’t anything. I look at all of 'em |and I laugh at all of ’em, but I don't {advocate. I haven't hardly any poli- tics. Of course, I do belong to the Democratic party, but even the best of | us has got to let a little cussedness | come out now and then.” Will's origins were obscure, but not {humble. He was born in Oklahoma | when it was part of the Indian Terri- | tory. Rogers County, Okla., is named | after his family. ‘There is a strong Indian strain in Rogers. His father was one-eighth and MAN GUEST THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. Q.. AUGUST 10, 1930—PART THREE. WILL ROGERS KEEPS CLOSE TAB “JOKE BUSINESS" Those Who Favor on Both Sides of Question Win Consideration. his mother one-quarter Cherokee. The remainder of his ancestry was English and Irish. His education was informal, but more extensive than he admits. “gSure,” he is apt to say, “I studied McGuffey's Fourth Reader ten years and knew more about it than McGuffey | It is poor business for Will Rogers did.” | id."” He likes to call himself “ignern't.” but when he is doing that it is best to watch out. That's the guileful side of him. Hard Being Funny Man. This business of being the Nation's funny man is one of the hardest jobs in the country. Will admits it taxes him and sometimes depresses him. “1t's a terribly hard job,” he says. «The guys that tell you they can be LORBEERBAUM Of Vienna, Austria, who is entertaining and being entertained while the guest Lorbeerbaum -in-law and sister, on Cathedral svenue. Miss huunluln-ln-nnh-hdylull:dllnfll. : 1 [ e v funny at any minute, without any ef- fort, are guys that ain't funny to any- body but themselves. It keeps me jumpin’ to-get by. I've got to get at least one gag every day that has s Nation-wide appeal. “I depend on the newspapers for most of my inspirations. e days there is material for several good lines. Then there may be a week when there isn’t a thing worth mention. I think the people are pretty kindly and toler- ant towards me. “About once a month I turn out a gag that I get a big kick out of my- self. That's a pretty good average. Maybe I ought to start a gag-of-the- month club. That wouldn't be a bad idea.” All his activities have brought prac- tical blessings to Will and his family. It conservatively is estimated that his | fortune is well beyond two million- dol- lars. Rogers is known to have a great in-! | come, but_he is known also for his ability to hang on to it. His thrift is a byword in the theatrical profession, and there are those who go so far as to call him “tight.” There are many who say he lets them pay taxi fare and failed to buy them lunches when they thought he should. In his refusal to in- dulge in reckless spending he is con- sistent with his attitude toward all of Hollywood's false fronts. When he wants a thing, he buys it. His 120-acre ranch near Los Angeles would be & show place if he was given to showing it. He and Mrs. Rogers en- joy the cool shadowed comforts of the Beverly Hills Hotel when they are in town. Will keeps a string of horses, cause he finds real recreation in a game of polo and he wears loose, inexpensive c’nflo'!!"l {friends in Wi AP £ contributes liberally to charity and does it with the quietness that charac- terizes all his personal . During the war he contributed $100 a week to the Red Cross. Studio writers who work with Rogers say he uses one joke about six times. A{’ur it has appeared in his daily arti- cles, it is remodeled and expanded into one of his longer Sunday articles. Prom | there it may progress to an after-dinner | speech or a radio talk. In none of these | instances is it mere repetition. Al- ways Rogers is particular to-see that he has some new angle of approach. However, this system requires an in- | finite amount of bookkeeping and sec- retarial work. Will Rogers is in the humor business and he conducts it in a businesslike fashion. He can tell you how many jokes were produced in a year and where they were shipped. Pur- thermore, he keeps up on the humor market. (Copyright, 1930, by North American News- paper Alliance.) American dental equipment is being used in China. BRITAIN’S WEALTH IS CHANGING HANDS MacDonald Government Receives Huge Sums From Taxes on Estates. LONDON (#).—Redistribution of | Great Britain's wealth through taxes |on huge estates is going on in a big ay. The income of Ramsay MacDonald’s government from death duties this year | seems iikely to establish a new record. Since April 1 nearly $90,000,000 has | poured inio the British treasury from this source. That is well above Chan- cellor Snowden's estimate of $410,000,- 000 for the year. ‘This figure is the more remarkable | because three huge estates have not | at least another $75,000,000. | It is, for example, estima‘ed that ap- | proximately $50,000,000 will be derived | from the late Lord Ashton’s fortune, while the estates of Lord Dewar and | Maj. Andrew Coats will yleld about | $10,000,000 and $5,000,000, respectively. | The Dewar money came from whisky | been formally proved. They will vieid | ana_ the Coats riches from cotton | HUNGARIAN ARCHDUKE For the financial year 1920-30 Win-| ST|DIES BRAZIL SCHEME ston Churchill, chancellor of the ex- :‘?Xlnefluwef E‘ the conservative :flbmef, es- | a t $405,000,000 would be de- Inter- B vies. " THia \aiaai | Cotiew Bxport; Cntih Syeenuites | yield was $498,850,000. ests Albert, Who Pays Visit e | to Sao Paulo. ‘This amount _included from the estate of Mr. Bernhard Baron, | SAO PAULO (#).—Studying Brasilian methods of controlling coffee $4,650,000 from that of Lord Revelstoke | exports and prices to see if such a plan can be and $2,720,000 from that of Lord Rose- | bery. used for the wheat of his own country, Archduke Albert of Hungary spent sev- eral weeks in this state. He was interested in Sao Paulo also DEAF CHILDREN AIDED | because of the large number of Hun- 3,000,000 School Pupils Estimated | earians seited nere: 0= 0 T iscussing the wheat situa to Have Defective Hearing. ;mnm' T CAMBRIDGE, Mass. ().—A record | “Often we must compete with wheat of restoring to normal hearing in a sin- | from the United States in European | gle Summer 25 per cent of the average | markets, and on occasions we have had Gefective hearing chil iren is reported to | serious crises in agriculture. Under the American Federation of Organiza- | these conditions it is necessary that tions for the Hard of Hearing. | Hungarians should know all means The report is by Martha S. Mason, which other countries use for the de- vice president of tHe National Congress | fense of their products in foreign mar- of Parents and Teachers. kets. . She says in 1929 the Summer round- | The duke said that Hungary's eco- up campaigns of the congress, con- | nomic troubles in recent years were due ducted in 1,520 localities in the United [ Mainly to the waste of the war, om States, examined 56,865 children, found | Which the country spent $200,000 daily 2,110 hearing defects and corrected 565 | fof more than four years. of these. —————e She estimates 3,000,000 school chil-| Four 200-year-old cushions were sold dren have hearing defects. in London recently for $7,500. 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