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TUESDAY, JULY 17,
1934.
NOTES OF THE DAY SIXTEEN MILES
MOSCOW AND JAPAN
The proposed Locarno Pact for Eastern Europe and Itussia's entry Into the League of Nations, soon to be approved, are probably the of pence in the best guarĪTIES
or
The
Tu
IN THE AIR
of the upper air which man now posseseca.
No stratosphere balloon was.ever
BALLOON IS MAMMOTH ONE
The building of this balloon was
Bo large an the one just finished at a job bigger than even the Good- Akron, for Maj. William Kepner year plant at Akron, which has
The Very Idea!
G
OLD HONGKONG"
It shoud be stated that the
By George VOING back some twenty years we are pleased to Far East. The connection may nte American balloonists who but the nature and effects of which
will seek to pierce the are little known. first glance scom remote, but it
Delicate Instruments will be find evidence of the spirit of of stratosphere next week may or may needs only a brief Russia's diplomatic absorptions to not take the "highest up" record arranged in and on the outside of | show the connection to be very to America from Russia. But it the globular gandela of Dow metal, enterprise and progress in
very direct. Rightly greatly to the meagre knowledge magnesium.
is almost certain that they will add very light but strong alloy.of the then City Fathers who conceived the idea of con- wrongly,
is still Moscow fear of an invasion of her Siberian
trolling night traffic in the borders by Japan Of that there
following ingenious way. can be little doubt, All her inter- national activities those days ear ba assumed to reflect themselves in
鞠 Huddersfield some way upon the security of the Maritimes Provinces. And by de-
nono ever carried such a varied had ever tackled. The bag, which man but the local Watch Com aign, not by accident. The Eastern Locarno, as a further guarantee of Rsortment of elaborate instru- will contain 8,000,000 cubic feet her security in Europe, strengthensments for recording the conditions of gas, is so big that no room had mittee thought so highly of the
the annce to permit ita being idea that they adopted it. It will moct. her position vis-a-vis Japan.
The flight, sponsored by the U. prend out on the floor to patch winding course of the Amur River remains a powder magazine which S. Army and the National Geo- together its sections with rubber So the vast spread of carefully may be set off at any time by the graphie Society, is aimed at bring spark of some unexpected in- ing home the bacon in the form of
the Barthou-Simon real information, rather than to rubberized cotton cloth was piled in long windrows of pleats, with cident. But
made it N little logs seek now stunt records.
This huge balloon is five times only the edges exposed for cement 1alks have
kely that the "unexpected" will be manipulated.
as big as the one used by Com-jing. mander Settla last autumn, and Trucking of the balloon west. FORGETTING A GRUDGE more than three times as big as ward to the sheltered valley in Russia has had to forget an an- the Soviet balloon which now holds the South Dakota Black Hills, cient grudge to be able to announce the altitude record, 62,304 feet, or where the start will be made was 111.8 miles. It is built to rise to a tremendous problem, for the Its readiness to take a seat 16 miles if conditions permit. adges had to be folded and packed
Further details of the invention Geneva's Council table. For long,
in such way that no rubbing would result..
are not to hand but if the accumu- Moscow has regarded the Lenguo
4,700 lator was of the acid type, it a consortium of capitalistic
The bug weighs somo Powers bound together primarily Aside from the thrill of pierc-|
the unknown pounds, and the whole balloon, would appear also to serve as a by their hatred and fears of ing higher into
it sess
An upper air than man has ever gone with gondola, instruments, and sleep preventitive whilst on duty, advantage in
chance to tific data to be obtained, and every Congue a strengthen itself against Japan effort is being made to see that and is willing to let bygones be none of it is missed.
and Capt. Albert Stevens. And constructed scores of big balloons, inventor was
Garage Stubbs Road,
as
SCIENTIFIC.DATA SOUGHT.
cement.
Socialism.bership. It sees before, there are definito scien-crew, will weigh almost oight tons.
in
the
Hongkong Telegraph. bygonen and to bury its suspicions. Major Kepner, the U. S. Army's near Rapid City, S. D., was chosen
TUESDAY, JULY 17, 1934.
The invention consisted of # amall electric accumulator fixed to the belt of the policeman on point duty and connected by wires to bulbs attached to his wrists. A red bulb was placed on the Inside
of the right hand and a green bulb on the outside of the left, the
not show until the policeman. novelty being that the lights did
raised his arms,
and would give the policeman a very good excuse for not running ufter miscreants.
The hardy officer ran the risk of
WILL START IN S. DAKOTA. The site of the start of the flight. The motive in purely selfish, and best balloonist, will navigate the by Major Kepner after three weeks having the hands reduced to raw the readiness of the support of balloon. This leaves Captain Ste- of flying over the territory, and ment but this was nothing to the some surprise may be provoked by
vens, an experienced observer and a careful study of weather records. Britain and France. Essentially,
There, some time next week, passibility of short circuiting however, there in good reason for one of the best aerial photogra- such backing. Both Britain and phers in the world, to attend to there is reason to expect a cloud- whilst yawning or pocketing a tip.
les,
windless day of the kind
It is reported that this systemi To help him, many of the In-necessary to success. If the flight eventually came into disuse when France are sincerely desirous of the gathering of information. peace; in Russin, they will find the most powerful ally possible instruments are automatic, and self-is successful and a landing is made
recording.
without damaging the bag or in 2 second night in efforts for peace preservation.
Only one set of temperature and struments, barometric measurements, arrived September may be tried, to check
single day results. at consecutively in
If Kepner and Stevens should from the earth to the stratosphere, has ever been made in America. regain the "farthest up" champion- solentillating hands for some time Captain Stevens made it. ship for America, they would be in copy book style but his allmerit only reviving a tradition. For the getting the better of him, he began first flight into the stratosphere in
DOUBLE SAFEGUARD
READINGS TO BE AUTOMATIC.
DIED IN DESCENT.
an officer who was suffering from an acute attack of Hongkong foot, was put on point duty.
The harassed man flashed his
body.
THE CRISIS IN SAN FRANCISCO Hongkong, with its own grim memories of a general strike, will, feel a decided measure of sympathy for San Francisco in
No one in Moscow belleves that the plight in which it now finds M. Litvinov cherishes the slightest other itself. This must be the general hope that France or any reaction of all sober-minded peo-League power will send soldiers to ple, apart from the rights or the aid the Soviet Union in a war with wrongs of the situation. Actual- Japan. What they do believe la ly, the trouble originated in cer- that an accord between Rusain and especially the League tain demands by the longshore France, will discourage Germany men in respect of wages and
ern front should it become in conditions of labour, but the from attacking Russia on the wast- general stoppage is a direct out- volved in a war with Japan in the closely borne come of the employment of the east do this font of my attack
fear of National Guard in an effort to in mind that this break the longshoremen's strike. from the east, whatever neutrals of accurately determined focal with those of Prof. Auguste Pic wards, whilst other cars
roof of the Hongkong Hotel. Other labour organisations have may think of its likelihood, is length will automatically take card, have been made in airtight signalled underground or over the
Armly embedded in the minds of pictures of the earth straight down gondolas.
The stratosphere begins at about joined in as a protest against Soviet stateamen. They are con- from the bottom of the gondoln. what the workers in general convinced, too, that there is, at least, This will record an area 150 miles seven miles above sea level. No
"moral" alliance between Ger-square, and give a check on the sider to be a misuse of State power. So far as the longshore-many and Japan: that both have barometric readings of altitude.
cherished plans of expansion at the expense of the Soviet Union. They are convinced, further, that should Rusain become involved
men are concerned, their chief alm is to secure control of the "hiring halls," or employment agencies. The main source of the trouble is that there is an over-supply of longshoremen, and the strikers allege that some five hundred men, who are sald to spend most at the bars while waiting in the pool-rooms for. employment, get regular employ-
13
CENTURY OF PROGRESS
On the coming flight, tiny cam-balloon was made by Capt. Haw-scratching himself all over his eras wi! record these readings thorne Gray, U. S. A.
The result was that. impatient taxis were invited to perform. automatically and periodically, in- a watch, so the record should be Captain Gray rose eight miles, circles in the face of oncoming cluding in the picture the face of
but died on the way down from vehicles which had themselves perfectly accurate.
Synchronized with these small exposure to the rare air. All later beeil waved backwards and for-
Aights, beginning cameras, a large aerial camera stratosphere
clouds ever form so high, and the temperature does not fall farther
s you ascend-above this point.
Somewhere in the upper layers this stratosphere, perhaps
AIR TO BE BOTTLED. Samples of air will be bottled af
were
The climax came however, one night when His Excellency's car was recognised approaching. An enthusiastic officer.displayed... the little green balb temptingly in his left hand and as the car drew almost level he saluted smartly with his right,
a war with either one, the other at various heights, and brought higher than man can penetrate, ia would be encouraged to attack. back to earth to be analyzed. the mysterious layer of ozone
The chauffeur horrified at the But if Germany can be persuaded Radio communication with the which some scientists believe to to enter the Eastern Locarno, earth will be maintained, giving a be a sheath which saves people
sudden appearance of the red bulb, Japan may be persuaded to forget chance to study the effect of great on the earth below from destruc-
It is hoped that at 15 miles some hurriedly backed. The manoeuvre the electrical condition of the at- her dreams of Empire-building on heights on radio transmission, and tion by ultra-short light rays. the Asiatic Continent.
mosphere at heights from 6,000 evidence can be found of increas-was repeated several times until feet to the "ceiling of the flight. Ing ozone content in the atmos-au extra smart salute caused the bulb to break on the officer's fore- Wind direction and velocity phere. ment whilst some three thousand
No such thorough preparations, head. The innumerable labour troubles will be studied for their possible others seldom get a job. About
earth-surface weather either in the building of the bal-
Although this enabled His Ex- fortnight ago, the employers of the day maka dismal reading. effect on
then, however, it is and on future flights through the loon or in the construction of the concluded a compromise agree. Now and
Instructive to compare them with stratosphere. Measurements will instruments, have ever before been vellency's car to pass, the unhappy unable to stop any ment with the International the labour troubles of a century be made of the mysterious "cos-poured into a stratosphere flight officer was
Association
further cars Longshoremen's
that night until a age. The following story, printed mic rays," which are known to be in man's effort to pry from Nature aimed at securing satisfactory in the London Times of May 2 constantly present on the earth, her secrets of the upper alt.
passing motorist threw him a larga cigar, which with careful manipu hiring conditions and preventing 1834, makes interesting reading:
lation, prevented considerable unfair and inequitable distribu- "So great is the prevalence of the
havoc. It failed however to stop tion of work. For this purpose, spirit promulgated lately by the
the policeman from being very were to be unions as to wages that all classes "hiring halls"
sick and it was as a result of his established at each port. The appear to be actuated by a spirit of opposition to their employers.
strong complaints that the system agreement recognised that em-
Even the washerwomen have not
was changed, ployment of longshoremen is not
escaped the system. No fewer regular, being dependent in large than 70 of this usefal class of part on the movement of vessels,
fomales struck at Kensington for and accordingly measures were higher wages. It appears that 2 outlined whereby it was hoped shillings, pence per diem and that employers might readily two half-pints of beer has been find competent workers and the the regular scale of wages, but a latter be able to ascertain when revolt was agreed upon and the employment is available without price to be demanded fixed at 8 delay or inconvenience.
shillinge per diem and the usual A fur-
beer allowance. After copalder- ther feature of the agreement able time had been accupied in was that committees of em-arloying, the washerwomen gain- ployers and employees were to ed their point, and after taking determine from time to time the copious libations of gin returned number of men ordinarily re- the following day to their tubs as quired for the normal commerce usual." That little story pre- of each port, and that the, num-sents a striking picturo ber of men registered should be labour movement a century ago. The improvement since then is limited to such requirements, too obvious to need comment. the remainder to be placed on waiting lists. Only registered
of the
Whilst
workers were to be employed. being freely talked. These were the main lines of the there is a natural disposition to agreement évolved, but the terms blame the strikers, there must were turned down by the unions, be a stong sense of grievance on and thus the deadlock was the part of the workers to induce created. Since then, as a result them to come out in such num- For the sake of the people of sympathetic strikes, the crisisbers. has taken on a national and a who will be the principal Buf- political aspect, resentment being ferers if the dispute is prolonged, particularly strong over the and of the futura relationship employment of the National between capital and Labour, it Guard in the role of strike- is to be hoped that, even at this breakers. How matters will late hour, common-sense may end, time alone will show, but come into its own and a satis there are ugly possibilities about factory adjustment of the the situation, with revolution troubles be reached.
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CORRESPONDENCE.
Dear George,
May I intrude on your valuable column to appeal for support for the event, programme of which I append?
Grand Government
Depression
Concert
Somewhere
Soon
Pan'O solo......Hon. Mr. C. G. Mackle.
Duet, (Now Jurymen take our ndvice)..Hon, Mr. T. N. Chau and Mr. W. N. T. Tam.......
Trio, (On yon Bonny Banks). Messro, V. M. Grayburn, W. H. E. Thomas-and Li Koon-chun.
Solo (Myself when young). Mr. W. J. Kerwick.
Recitation comic (This little' pig). Mr. F. A. Joseph.
Solo, bans (Boer, glorious Bear)
..Mr. Stanley Dodwall. Quartetto (Moonshine). Masars. Y. J. Breen, J, D. Lloyd, G. C. Polham and B. C. J. Hawkins,