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« TRANS-ATLANTIC - COMMERCIAL FLYING. CAUSE OF CANCER.
PRESENT FLIGHT FUTURE AIDS, SAYS COMDR. BYRD.
TRAVEL OVER THE OCEANS AT VAST HEIGHTS
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CURATIVE FACTOR IN THE BLOOD.
The belief was expressed at the annual meeting at the Hanse of. Lords of the British Empire Can- cer Campaign that the discovery of the cause of cancer would not long be delayed. Lord Cave ́was" in the chair.
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Sir Thomas Border said:
There does seem apparent to some of us a more hopeful ten-, dency in recent research than has ever been the case before. It is clear that a concentrated attack on the problem is being made from many different angles. The Duke of York, who was re- elected president, wrote expressing a heartfelt hope that discoveries helping the solution of the problem may be made in the near future.” The report of the council stated
My last article indicated that America Proved by Test, strong westerly winds could be ob- This is not a wild dream, be tained at a high altitude. It s cause our plant, the America, when thought that should a plane fly it arrived near Le Bourget, bad 20,000 feet it would generally be cñough gas left to fly 500 miles true that in going from west to | And, in' addition, the America had cast the speed of the plane wouldį mail and a load of some hundreds be increased by the wind 40 or 50 of pounds on board. or even 70 miles an hour. How- Of course, it is possible that ever, to Ay at this altitude would within a few years something will require far greater engine power, bo invented to disperse the fog owing to the rafity of the atmos from the landing field, or some phere; and much ore gasoline light will be invented which will would be needed than at lower properly penetrate it. Until these altitude. Cabin passengers would inventions are perfected, however, perhaps have to be equipped with | fog still remains aviation's greatest that in the investigation of in- oxygen tanke as would, of course, enemy.
munity in animals (a special study the pilots in the cockpit.
Storms will not always prevent at the Lister Institute), it has been This would have the further ad- progress through the air, and freestablished that the immunity pro- vantage of keeping the passengers) quently winds can be taken advan. I duced in a rat by injecting it with| and dyers waria, as it gets con- tage of to increase greatly the siderably below the freezing point | speed of the airplane..
year.
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a scrum prepared from a rabbit which has been inoculated with rat cancer is a process closely skin to: that which Nature provides in what is known as "natural resis-
at that altitude at any time of the In crossing the Atlantic by air
flying will have to be done at vari This great plane would have, ous altitudes. The navigator will any, six, engines and would be ablo | be an expert meteorologist, and his "tance." bo fly with any two of the engines | knowledge "of wind directions and dead, and with a very light load wind strength and so forth will be it might be possible to reach such greater, than that possessed "to-day a degree of efficiency that the plane by any flyers. He will fy at that could ay with half of the engines altitude where he will have the dend.
winds with him, or where they will be weakest against him. There al ready exist-instruments, which, to gether with radio direction Enders, will give him his speed over water or over land.
feature.
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Repairs in Mid Air
These experiments have brought forward a new idea in cancer re- search by showing the conditions under which a curative factor is! developed in the blood, but it re- mains to be discovered whether this represents a step in the cure for cancer.
Ten Years Of Life. The researches of Dr. Gye and Mr. Barnard од the "cancer virus" have been repeated by other workers, and many of their results conarmed, but in some cases it has not been found possible to sup- part the germ theory.". It has been found possible to take photo- graphs of malignant cella actually in the process of growing.
much more readily in some organe than in others.
When starting out on such flights there would necessarily be a great load of gasoline, but the tank would be supplied with a pump valve, as was the America. It two of the engines should stop 'within tea hours after starting, the sur- The engines of this great plan plus gas could be dumped and will be accessible to mechanics so enough kept to allow the plane to that in case of motor stoppage in fly off four engines. We believe the air a mechanic can have a long-distance planes of the future chance to do repairs, and get them will all carry this dump valve going again. This is by no means
impossible even now. The two out Radio to be Big Ald.
board engines of the America could
The results of radium and X-rays Within a few years there will be be reached by a little cat-walk from treatment seem to be of great im- enough radio direction-finding sta the cabin and certain minor re-portance, especially with regard to tions located over the transatlantic pairs could have been made in the the discovery that the "disease route to enable a navigator to air if needed. There was also yields to this form of treatment. locate his exact position at any cat-walk. going outside over the time, so that he need not fear behood of the plane to the nose of ing drifted off by strong cross the engine. There was no occasion winds which he was unable to cal to use either on our flight, but the calate. A wind of 40 miles a knowledge that if necessary hour flowing from the left side could do repairs gave us an added would blow a plane 40 miles off feeling of security. the route per hour. Those places
On our trip our three motors still in the early stages of the of the future flying 20,000 feet will
ran for 42 hours without any one diesase he has a 60 per cent, chance always be high enough to crable of them missing a beat.
That of being alive and well in ten the navigator to see stars and sun should be proof enough of the re- years, practically all the time, thus per liability of the modern engine, and mitting him to keep his course. to Charlie Lawrence of the Wright. On the America, at frequent inter- Aeronautical Corporation, who de vals, despite the clouds, we had opsigned them a great deal of credit portunities to do this on our fight.must go for the success of our trip planes will be freight ships and in
The result was that, while we I engines so reliable as these con could not tell how much the wind be designed and go successfully that case perhaps at least a part. had blown us off our course or through a 42 hours test, such as wa
of the freight could be carried in calculate the error of the com- gave them, then flying across the the wings. In the America we had passes, we knew before we got out Atlantic cannot any longer be re
a compartment made in the wings of the dense fog almost exactly garded as a risky, unsafe business
in which we put some of the most
where we were.
The big landing wheels of such
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Power Dificulties Overcome.
The results of cancer treated by operation show that the percentage wo of cases which live ten years-30- is higher than might be expected.
If a patient is operated upon while.
The report was adopted
Freight Craft Possible. Some of thèse transatlantic
precious material on board, such
as a piece of the original American
a plane would offer considerable The difficulty of motive power- Flag which we were bringing to resistance in the air, slowing up the has been overcome. While we are President Doumergue... The wings plane by perhaps five or ten miles the subject of new innovations, let of these future planes could be, an hour. Therefore, the landing me recall that when Alcock and
gear would have to be withdrawn Brown made their Arst great dar- made thick enough for passengers close against or into the fuselage, ing jump from Newfoundland to to be carried within them,
In
I believe Noville has demonstrated Ireland, they flew in fog a great fact, if a trap door had been made that passengers in this air liner deal of the way and never knew on of the future will be able to sit which side they were flying. For in the wings of the America they comfortably in their cabin and. re many minutes they were dying up could nearly have held a man. ceive messages from any place in side down. Luckily for us, since the world.
then there has been invented in- struments which show exactly at what angle the place is flying, and we had mone of what anxiety and discomfort.
Engines Big Problem, No mechanism built to-day is in- fallible. The engine of a railroad train may break down and no great charm be done. If the en-
we
In case of shipwreck all abips at sea carry lifeboats and life per- servers. We had just these things on board the America, a boat large enough to hold seven or eight men which would have floated on the almost indefinitely.
We had other comforts, too. We gines of an airplane stop the plane had a telephone with which must come down immediately and could talk to each other and hear occan the landing speed of a plane is above the din of the motors, even craft was constructed of rubberized always such that if it hits any when by shouting we could not fabric and weighs only 29 pounds. obstacle disaster must result.
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It had been stated that the sexes This airliner, in going from weat All these, and many other inven- We had enough food to last us over were equal, but he could not think to cast; should reach Paris in one tions, have contributed and will 18 days and there was breathing it when he saw the poor, wretched day fromNew York Storms contribute toward making the apparatus of only a quarter pound girl before him, Sex, equality was would not bother it. Its greatest transatlantic air liner of
weight, which condensed the breath. enemy would be fog, for the future
when one blew into it so there was It had been stated that the wo greatest enemy of aircraft to-day The earth inductor compass made no necessity of making & forced "man was legally married when 15) is fog. But even fog can be rea- by the Pioneer Instrument Com landing because of thirst,
reare and months old, but that dered harmless. This future plane pany is the airplane compass of I believe we demonstrated that the marriage was never consum- will be guided directly to its land the future, because that part of the ing field by radie direction finders, compass, which is affected by mag-plane could land on water with mated. In 1921 she went through and, knowing exactly where it is, netic meridians can be placed far that the lifeboats could be put who robbed her of £150 and leit out disaster to the passenger and a form of marriage with a mani will-have-no-trouble in landing out on the wing of the plane so overboard. As a matter of fact, convicted of bigamy, and in 1994 her. The following year she was unless the fog goes right down onto the compass is not thrown out by we had two boats, one to use as and again in 1928 she was convict
magnetic material of the engines an emergency boat packed inside ed of theft. The provide against such cases, and the metal parts of the place, the larger beat... the plane should have enough gass as usually is the case with ordinary Naturally, much work must be Not having seen, her husband for line left either to fly to another compasses. Leads from this earth done before these aiz liners will 12 years she thought she had feld uncovered by fog-which in inductor compsas out in the wing fy daily across the Atlantic. But right to remarry. She stole money formation would be relayed by can be brought into the navigator they will be built, and they will when she was ill and she was radio or to by around wall the and pilot to steer by.
China Daily maintaining two children of fogTM disperses.
(Continued on next Column.)
aunt with whom she was living.
the field.
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The laboratory of the Albert Dock Hospital (a branch of the Beamen's Hospital Society) is the. headquarters of the London war investigations were made which led against bubonic plague. Here the
Plutarch and another ship contain to the discovery that the ed infected rats.
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Dr. Hanchell, head of the labora been carried on since 1911 and that tory, told a reporter that work had about 3,000 race are examined each year. They are sent to the labora tory by men employed by the Port of London sanitary authority. He added:
with the place and date, when The rate arrive in tins labelled they were secured. When the -time for examination arrives they are placed on & slab, and those suspected of plague infec tion are subjected to exhaustive tests When definite prool is ob tained, the Port of London sani- tary authority is warned and every precaution is taken to avoid the spread of infection. revealed that a third ship with "Our recent investigations have a grain cargo from the Argen tine carried plague infected rats