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MOTHER OF LOST AIRMAN. Mme. Nungesser Meets Wives of Atlantic Fliers
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One of the Arst to send congratulatory flowers Mesdames Coste
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and Bellonte after their recent Atlantic husbands'
flight" Was
Mme. Nungesser, mother of Captain Charles Nungesser, French Jost during his attempt to span who WAR the Atlantic In 1927. Mme. Nungesser here is shown, left, with Mme. Coste, centre, and Mme. Bellonte as the aged woman visited them in the Coste home in Paris. She la showing them the military tunic of Captain Nungesser; with its many decorations,
While Dieudonne Coste was Atlantic crossings. touring America to the plaudits of admiring millions, two aged women in France followed re parts of his every movement, prayed over their rosaries for his safety, and eagerly awaited the day when "Doudou" would come home.'
"While Charles was preparing for his flight he often said to me that if he should die, the one man of France who would avenge him was Coste," she explained. "Now his prophesy has been fulfilled.”
One of these is the famous flyer's own mother, whose humble home in Caussade has become a sort of shrine for the peasant folk who can think and talk of nothing else but their "d'Artagnan of the
Air"
"The day before this brilliant" flight, Coste came to me with Bel- lonte, and as he embraced me he said, 'I shall think of him who has shown me the way when I fly over the great waste."
"If only Charles were here now. He believed so firmly that a The other woman Is the "gold Frenchman should and would ae- star mother of Atlantie flying"complish what he set out to do. Madame Nungesser, whose son, I am happy now because it has the French war ace; was lost in happened as he wished it to hap- May, 1927, when he and Captain pen."
Coli attempted to fly to New York. For many months after Nunges- Her home in Paris is an humble ser and Coli disappeared, Mme, one, too, but she has turned it Nungesser refused to accept the into a
museum to the memory theory that they were dead. But
of Captain Charles Nungesser. time has softened this suffering On the walls are autographed and anxiety, and she is able now photos of other gallant heroes of to live with his memory.
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These pictures show Dr. Michelaon and the middle-long vacuum tube through which a beam of light will be projected The in order to check the speed at which light travels.." chart above shows the number of years required for light to travel from the earth to various stars, assuming that light
travels at a speed of 186,284 miles a second.
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Bobby Jones, though he's grizzled veteran in point of ser vice, is still quite boyish. Look at the facial expressions in the pictures here which were taken just after the young man had won the British C. en "championship. Above he's shown speaking his piece, just like little Wilfred at a school prize-day, but this speech was an acknowledgement of the British golf trophy. Below, he might be little Wilfred himself... holding the prize awarded for be- ing the best.. speller in his class, but the fact is he is Mr. Robert Tyre Jones, Jr., with one of the world's greatest golfing prizes in. his grasp. Above, left, he is being escorted by British bobbles after his victory, and is not really be ing arrested at all, though pro- bably a lot of British golfers think he ought to be.
As to his abilities, the wind may be high, it may rain, the course may be long or short or hilly or heavily trapped, but stil! Bobby Jones will be the best golf player in the field.
If there are abnormal conditions he makes them work in his favour, His game is well rounded. He is one of the longest drivers in the world. When straightness off the tee is considered, few have ever seen his equal. His Iron shots, perhaps, leave something to be de- sired, especially the shorter ones, but still they are far better than the average.
If there is a better putter in the world than Bobby Jones, he has yet to come into the limelight,
For 50 years Dr. Albert A. half light years, or 25,000,000,- Michelson, internationally known 000,000 miles, and thus even the scientist, has studied the problem alightest correction in the speed of light and
at of light might change this dis- the extensive Irvine ranch near tance by many millions of miles over which the light beam was Although seemingly a tremen- of some astral body-such as the Now this procedure is re dous problem in mathematics, Dr. sun. Santa Ana, California, he is con- It is even possible that a change measured in its flight.
The tests were conducted by Michelson asserts there is little versed and the distance of stars, cluding his most famous achieve of 1,000 miles or so might be made ment-the calculation of light's in the distance to the sun, which flashing light beams between two of complexity to his experiments. planets and such is measured by
Uses Mirrors.. 93,000,000 mountain peaks near Los An-
the light speed formula, which is now calculated at speed.
A beam of light races up and increases accuracy greatly. In 1926, Dr. Michelson per- miles,
geles, Mount Wilson and Mount
1 The present figure of 299,796 Baldy, 22 miles apart.
down the mile-long vacuum tube. My formula is correct within formed the seemingly impossible
part in 200,000, approxi- Dr. a second, says
Before Dr. Michelson arrived; It flashes back and forth on re- one feat of measuring this speed and kilometers arrived then at the figure accepted Michelson, is not more than 50 the U. S. coast and geodetic survolving mirrora set Inside the mately. The previous measure throughout the world299,796 kilometers off. Why, then, you vey spent weeks in calculating an tube, making in all five round trips was accurate within about
part in 5,000," explained. Dr. kilometers a second, or, roughly, might ask, does the physicist re-exact 22 miles, and Dr. Michel, or 10 miles.
turn to his feats?
son was satisfied with their state- Emerging from the tabe It Is Michelson M 186,284 miles a second,
Since all solar distances are First Test "Too. Easy." ment that the measurements were caught again on the revolving Three factors enter. Into the
First, he wishes to check bis correct.
mirror. The mile between his observations, the mirrors, the in- computed on the speed of light,
But when-if ever-the world] mirrors can be measured with an tervals at which the tests are. TONIC FOOD BEVERAGE one interesting effect of the previous results because he thinks
famous scientist's new researches they were too simply arrived at of science asks "Did you measure error: of less than one-sixteenth made and the observers. I do not may be to change the distances-certainly a paradoxical situa- the distance yourself" the doctor of an inch and can be checked plan to make any of the tests myself, and probably will be df- of the sun and the stars as we] tion! And second-this, too, re- will not be able to boast that he with ease, bu
Prior to Dr. Michelson's earlier rectly connected with the experi now know them. For example. veals the passion for truth of the did-hence the construction of a the distance to the nearest star scientific mind-Dr. Michelson $40,000 Iron tube one mile long research, light speed was mea-ments only if my assistants get
aured by the calculated distance] into trouble." (Alpha Centauri) is four and one-was not certain of the distance and the second test.
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