New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 20, 1925, Page 19

PLANE CARRIER TOTAKETO WATER Saratoga Will Be Launched at " Gamden on April T Washington, March 20.—A new naval glant will take her first dip at Camden, N. J, April 7, when the first line alrplane carrier Saratoga slides off the ways of the New York Shipbullding Corporation. When completed and commissioned with the fleet some time late In 1926, she will be the biggest and fastest craft of the kind in the world and will carry a fleet of 72 combat, observa- tion and bombing planes. Launching of the Saratoga will mark an epoch in American naval construction significant of the changes man's conquest of the alr already has made in preparations for sca battles of the future. Mrs. Curtls D, Wilbur, wife of the naval secretary, will act as sponsor for the big ship at the christening ceremonies, with high officals of t navy and other government depart- ments witnessing the event. Lald down as one of six battle cruisers authorized under the 1916 bullding program, the Saratoga was converted under the arms limitation treaty, with her sister ship, the Lex- ngton, also to be launched in the near future, into an aircraft carrier Hearts . Dollars Two Statements—one of which bas to do with Health and Welfare, the other with Financial Strength AN OPEN LETTER Iment of |speed of between 33 and 34 knots. |8he will be driven by electric mo- |tors, the power belng generated by |first American before her construction was very far advanced, The other four cruisers ‘were scrapped on the ways, The original plans called for a heavily armed and armored fighting ship to make approximately 35 knots an hour, But with the change in misgion to that of alrcraft carrler, the Baratoga had to be re-designed and re-bullt from the waterline up. As ro-designed, the Saratoga will will be 888 feet long over all, with a maximum beam of 105 feet and a flylng deck reaching from stem to stern, a clear sweep, with the excep- tion of the smokestack and navigat- ing bridge huddled to the extreme starboard slde amidships in order to leave full room for the landing of planes, She will carry elght 8-inch rifles, the limit of size for ships of her type under the treaty, will have a displac- about 35,000 tons and a steam turbines power, There is no counterpart for this first line carrler in any other navy, although Japan has under construction similar ships of almost as great size but considerably lower speed. The British navy is also working out plans for new car- of 180,000 horse- > |riers which are still regarded by na- val authorities generally as experl- mental to a large extent. The treaty fixed relative tonnages in car- ment as It was designed to permit replacement at any time when more has been learned about the actual functioning of the ships. Completion of the Saratoga and Mr. Havey Fiske, President riers btu did not include a replace- | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1925, Lexington will not take up the full treaty tonnage of the United States and the navy general board recom- mended during the last session of congres authorization of an addition- al 20,000 ton first line craft. No act |tion was taken on that recommenda- tion, however, and tentative designs for the additional ship now probably | will await actual service tests with the two converted battle cruisers, THE HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS BRING RESULTS ‘OUCH LUNBAGO RUB PAINS FRON | AN ACHING BACK | Back hurts you? Can't stralghtey | up without sudden pain, sharp aches |and twinges? Now listen! 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All I remember from your lastyear's Statement is that the Metropolitan has several million policyholders life insurance company in the world. I've been following some are Indebted to Mr. 8. for his suggestion. advertisements clear in my min impressive figures you do it, but like, but—give and is the biggest Perhaps othe of your magazine that kind. doing to help people live longer. It isn’t entirely facts and figures on that. Call it a Heart State- ment or a Welfare Statement, or anything you neath the stage. Huge mounds of cakes are provided as offerings, usually accompanied by feasts for [the living, The least ornate of these village REVIVE OLD RITES thousands, End 0! that Year” Finds The “puo-do’ 'ls sald to be a Fu- Chinese Very Superstitious kienese rite, and the village of | Uong-dong near Foochow, reputed |to be the original home of the an- |elent custom, witnessed & celebra- tlon lasting seven days. People 3 % 3 B from all the reglon around, includ- Foochow, March 20,—~The Chinese ling scores of Buddhist and Taolst | year just closing being the “year of | pyjeqts wered in the village and the rat” when ail evil Influences are | tho nightly crowds numbered thou- most potent, recent months have |sands, A modern and western note acen the greatest revival of the rites wag injected into the age-old ob- | of “puo-do" within the memory of |servance by the bright lights fur- any man now in Foochow, [ nished by a portable electric plant “Puo-do" are speclal and most in place of the customary Aim yel- elaborate prayers offered for the out- {1ow 1ights of candles or the dimmer | cast dead who are supposed to re- igieam from buffalo-horn lanterns. turn and plague the Illving when prayers and offerings are not pre- sented for them, Every five or ten and cities in north T'ukien obeerve these rites for protection against angercd and injured spirits, but this year, heing also the first of a| Chinese cycle of 60 years, altars| have been set up In scores of places | around Foochow and prlests are chanting their prayers. Usually from five to 20 elaborate- ly decorated altars are erected in temples or private houses, depend- ing upon the population of the vil- lage or town. Special plays de- scriptive of possible punishment in the hereafter are given, sometimes by use of puppets in minfature, sometimes by life-size papler- mache images operated from be- England Seeks Improved - Methods to Ship Fruit London, March 20.—In order to discover the reason for what has been called brown heart, noted in | apples arriving In England from Australia, the governmental food in- vestigation hoard has sent a scienti- fic expedition to Australia. On the | journey out Engllsh apples were | tested, operated upon and vivisected | on board ship, As a result it was established that “brown heart” ap- | pears only In atmospheres contain- ing too much carbon dioxide, Many other problems of years villages fruojt published Iater. lately that tell of work jou're d just how you’re doing it or why ince you are doing it, give us the fransport were investigated and the | results, embodied In reports, will be | STATE WILL HELP WESTERN IRELAND English Press Reports of Famine Are Exagderated Dublin, March 20, — All sections | of the Irish press agree in depre- | cating the exaggerated reports pub- | lished in England and abroad of the dlstress along the western sea. | board. There s nothing to justify accounts of famine. Famines such | as occurred in the past are now declared to be impossible, Present means of communication 381-383 | has led to the present wanted is BIRNBAUM'S =~ have madeit easy to transport re-| government measures are provids llef immediately to any dietrict, For | months past government inspectors have been at work in the threat. vned areas, and thelr reports have cnabled the government to meet the situation promptly, These dis | triets have always lived on the bor- der line of want. The standard of living 18 very low, and, as The Irish Times points out, it would in any year be easy to describe places | where conditions of squalor could | be found as surely as they are| found in the Loudon districts of | Limehouse or Poplar, The disturbances of the past five years have caused a setback, and the sequence of two bad winters distress. There is, even in the localities af- fected, objection to any attempt to relieve the situation merely by fl‘ policy of charitable doles, What 1s | nployment, and this the | | general Ing. The work is malnly on road making and the repalr of phers, and the wages pald are from 21 to 2¢ shillipgs weekly, Coal is supplied at sixpence a bag of 140 pounds. Nearly 20,000 children are getting a free meal dally, yet the declision to make these meals fres instead of giving them at the lowest price was not unanimous, so great is the dread locally of & return to the old practice of relleving distress by methods of pauperism. There {8 agreement that the gove ernment departments are handling the position effectively, and they have the actlve cooperation of the local clergy and the principal ine habitants. THE HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS BRING RESULTS wanst. 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