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Martian Signals Read by Local Man

‘Old Salt’ Discovers Possible Code For Recent Sounds

The mysterious “signals from Mars” have been read! A local man, a retired and retiring sea captain, has a theory concerning the sounds, not of earthly origin, recorded on radio Instruments during the recent approach of Mars to the Earth, and in view of the fact that scientists themselves are disputing as to what these noises may be, his theory is as good as any other.

“Old Salt,” as the originator of the theory prefers to be known, started from the fact that the sounds consisted of four dots and five dashes, often repeated. He then proceeded to number the bodies in the solar system, starting with the Sun as No. 1. Mercury No. 2, Venus No. 3, Earth No. 4, Mars No. 5, and so on.

Daily News Maritime & Naval History Shipwrecks & Nautical Disasters

Six Sailormen Rescued After Four Days Adrift

Survivors of Wrecked Schooner Lived Off Flying Fish—Three Others Lost.

By the Associated Press.

EAST HAMPTON, N. Y., September 1.—Six survivors of the four-masted auxiliary schooner Samuel W. Hathaway, wrecked at sea last Tuesday in a hurricane that swept the Atlantic seaboard, were picked up early today by the steamship Southern Cross, bound from Buenos Aires for New York.

The rescued sailormen were found floating atop of the schooner’s skylight, where they had existed for four days, eating such flying fish that they snared and drinking water that they caught in their hats.

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Il Duce Roars Defiance to the World

Duce Tells His Troops to Be Ready for Instant Call to Arms.

MOBILIZES SUBMARINES

Sends Warships Speeding to ‘Maneuvers’ at Suez Canal.

By United Press

WITH THE ITALIAN ARMY, BOLANZO, Aug. 31.—Italy’s reply to threats of the world will be to bring to the highest decree of power all the armed forces of the nation, Benito Mussolini roared to 140,000 soldiers of his maneuvering army today.

“The world must know once again that while there is talk so absurd and provocative of penalties (sanctions), we will not give up a single soldier, a single sailor, a single aviator,” Il Duce cried to his men.

He spoke from the heights of Mt. Ronzone, with the soldiers ranged along the slopes of the hill. King Victor Emmanuel stood by his side.

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Ostrich Nearly Kills Attendant

Huge Bird Attacks Robert Reed

Pursues Him Around a Tree

Employe at Cawston Farm Attempts to Rescue Japanese and Almost Loses Life Before Ostrich is Beaten Off

In an encounter with a huge male ostrich at the Cawston ostrich farm yesterday, afternoon, Robert Reed, an employe of the company, was kicked twice and stamped by the angry bird, and undoubtedly would have been killed but for the timely Interference of other attendants, who beat off the ostrich with clubs.

Reed sustained a broken rib and his body was black and blue from the ostrich’s attacks upon him. A physician was called and Reed was taken to his home.

Archaeology Daily News

Valuable Roman Armor Uncovered by Plowman

KARAGATCH, Bulgaria, Aug, 9 (AP)—A peasant plowing near this village turned up one of the most interesting archeological finds made in recent years, When the plow struck an obstruction the peasant found it was a slab of marble. Lifting this a marble tomb was disclosed and within lay a suit of bronze armor of a Roman knight, together with shield, sword, spear and several utensils, including an exquisite vase.

Director Velkoff, of the National Museum, and Mr. Popoff, an expert on Greek antiquities, estimate that the find dates back to the pre-Alexandine period. They surmise that he may have been a dweller of a Hellenic colony on the Black Sea coast.

Daily News Local Histories

Shafer Beaver Hide Trouble Near Resolution

State Game and Fish Commission Still Holds Mrs. Shafer’s Furs

Attorney General George F. Shafer and officials of the state game and fish commission are nearing the end of a game of button-button, who’s got the furs, which has created some quiet amusement in unofficial circles here.

It all began during the primary campaign when Mr. Shafer was presenting his plea for recognition by Republican voters as a candidate for the governorship and was the subject of considerable whispering in the latter stages of the campaign.

Several weeks before the primary election the game and fish officials of Minnesota notified the North Dakota Game and Fish commission that Mrs. George F. Shafer, wife of the attorney general, had shipped some beaver hides to a Minnesota furrier to be made into a coat.

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A Dallas Custom

That of the policemen discharging loaded pistols all over the city every time an alarm of fire is raised at night. The object is to arouse those who are not…

Daily News Iron & Steam Railroads Travelers' Tales

N. P. Willis on the “Baltimore and Ohio Railroad”

ldlewild, August 8, 1859

Dear Morris : There is one class of sights upon a new railroad which are very interesting while their freshness lasts—the places that have been taken by surprise. On the line of the streak of lightning that was thrown over the Alleghanies by the Baltimore thunder-cloud of thirty-one million dollars, is a succession of far-hidden remotenesses—wild valleys, cascades, solitary shanties and mountain fastnesses—many of which were thought by the hunter, or by the pioneer settler, wholly unreachable by common thoroughfares, and, in fact, inaccessible to all visitings but the eagle’s, but which have been laid open, almost with the suddenness of a thunderbolt, and are now daily looked at from crowded freight trains and expresses, as familiar to the man in the locomotive as the signs of a street!

Daily News Local Histories

Theatre Proprietor Fined for Allowing Minors to Attend

Photograph of the Bijou Theatre, Perth Amboy, NJ, circa pre 1913. It shows 6 men and one youth standing in front of the building.

The much questioned practice of admitting minors with adult strangers to theatres came up for a test before Recorder Pickersgill at 7 o’clock last night, when Morris Streiff was fined $15 for admitting six little boys to his motion picture theatre at 189 Hall avenue. The law permits that children under age may be admitted to theatres when accompanied by “parent, guardian or adult friend,” but Recorder Pickersgill contends Streiff did not have the right to permit a man to take in six boys whom he met outside of the amusement place, even as an adult friend.

Aviation Daily News

Planes Still Lost as Ships Intensify Search of Pacific

$40,000 Rewards Offered for Recovery of Miss Doran and Golden Eagle

WEATHER CONDITIONS IDEAL FOR FIVE FLYERS IF AFLOAT

Fruitless Quest Continued Throughout Day and Night by Radio, Fleet and Aircraft

Dole Air Race Additional Information: Buhl Air Sedan ""Miss Doran"" NX2915 Tags: Dole Air Race, Buhl Air Sedan ""Miss Doran"" NX2915 Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive

SAN FRANCISCO, August 19.—The Pacific Ocean today was the scene of a renewed search for a brown-eyed girl of 22 and four men, missing flyers in the aerial derby to Honolulu, who may still be afloat upon its limitless leagues.

Mildred Doran, pretty school teacher of Flint. Mich., and her pilot and navigator, John A. Pedlar and Vilas R. Knope, had been down approximately 48 hours, according to the most hopeful estimates of the cruising radius of the biplane in which they set out Tuesday noon in the Dole $35,000 flight from Oakland to Honolulu. The time limit set by the builder of the plane on its ability to withstand the buffeting of the seas was only 24 hours.