AR
EX-QUEEN OF SPAIN HAPPY
IN EXILE
Menton, France, Dec, 20,
The duties enforced on royalty make life RO miserable that ex- Queen Enn of Spain has no regreta that he has lost her throne, ac- cording to a close friend of the Spanish royal family who is vaca- tioning hore,
Basing her opinions upon many years of observation of royal affairs during the reign of Alfonso and Queen Ena, the informant says the queen is enjoying personal freedom for the first time in her life.
"A reigning queen's life is all duty," she said, "and my stenog- rapher working from 9 to 5 has a better job and more enviable existence. I haven't the authority to speak for Her Majesty, but I think I am safe in saying that she has no regret over losing her job as queen.
"The greatest part of a queen's time is taking up with bowing to Iron-clad court etiquette, submit- ting to compulsory ceremonies that are tiresome and boring.
"Over and over they must ex- tend fingertips to be kissed by pompous court offelalx. Even in receiving their equals, queena or courts, princesses from other
whether on state occasions or in private, they are denied the privile- ges of intimate talks, and must ilmit themselves to monotonous 'ready-made' conversations,
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1935.
THE WORLD IN 80 HOURS ery U. S. Machine May Achieve New Dream
OUR
GLEAMING LINER MAKES ITS
Prosting by experience in the bloody 1934 waterfront strike, the San Francisce police have devise several types of protec Live equipment for riot suppres- alon duty, This portable folding metal shiell in piece of equipment designed to protect the wearer against thrown rocks and clubs.
one
BY THE TON
Nine Prosperity Pointers
Science Seeks Key To The Skies
since 1930.
3. Another record from iron and steel industry, month's output totalling 907,000 tons.
Out FIRST FLIGHT
at Municipa
ing Douglas
Kansas City, Dec. 15.
At first glan of TWA's big headquarters hangar
telling of records
transport planes.
s "Number 300,” a giant, gleam-
There is nothing outwi
with the proud lettering,
packed within its twin motory to ks like 14-passenger superchargers which enable give...
CHINA-KEYMAN
stratosphere. Only an expert coute clextra horsepower pitch propellors which bite harder agtect the three-geared thinner with altitude.
arder as the sub- int speed Yot, every grease boy at the Munic.. watch this plane when it takes to the air, airport` Krows grapher and bookkeeper watches its chief pilotas every Tomlinson when he strides through the TWA K. (Tommy.
ብ። A close look at "Number 300" re-line. On "Number venls the source of interest. The Cambridge fuel ratios the plane is the company's "llying la-With this device, Tomlimlyzer. boratory." One set of propellors hia regular assistant, or de- O'Brien, can tell at any time wh has rubber facing, part of n icing system. The propellors pre-milaage they are getting, Gener sont an all metal face, but little ally, they average two and two pipes from Inside the plane open tenths miles per gallon.
Perhaps the most remarkable upon their base to squirt an anti- freeze solution upon the blade in device on the plane are the con- another de-icing system.
Instead of sents, the cabin con- out thom. flying in the sub- would be most tains six one thousand gallon gas stratosphere
of Jup
in China, Kemil Dolhara, hend "Lawrencetary intelligence known as the nchurla."
BATON IN
stant speed pitch propeliors. With- NAZI CAOL
tanks or enough to give it a cruising dimcult. With them Tomlinson FOR SIX-
[range of 3,700 miles. None knoys can set his motors for any given but that the next takeoff of "Num-revolutions per minute and main- ber 300" may be a transatlantic hop trin that speed through marked if the experimental problems set changes in air density.
With this kind of equipment,
nel have been testing every type
MONTHS
M
1935
1936
SEE THE OLD YEAR OUT—THE NEW YEAR WELCOME IN JOIN IN THE Merriment of thE POPULAR NEW YEAR'S EVE DINNER DANCE CARNIVALS
Frankefurt-on-Main, |
Dec. 15.
R. ROBERT O. ROHME, the Lon-
fer it and Tomlinson demand such In a climb, as the air grows a flight.
thinner, the propellors automa- There is a heating system In the teally change pitch to bite harder rockpit for use in the frigid cold into the alr and maintain speed. of the substratosphere, where tem- This action is matched with shifts A nine-point programme of revival in British prosperity was
poentures often drop to 60 degrees of the supercharger's gear as the below zero. Liquid and gaseous plane mounts. announced by the Board of Trade Journal in the December issue.
After the takeoff and up to Most cheerful feature is the fact that the pace set in October oxygen containers draw into vapori-
zers to provide the crew with 15,000 feet the superchargers are gives a good indication of the winter level of employment.
1. Rein traders had "bumper" breathable air in the rarified at-set in low blower ratio. From doner who was senttenc-
16,000 feet on up to 30,000 the month in October, sales valuemosphere above. 20,000 feet,
the led to 18 months' impri- All modern transport planes carry maxium of "Number 300," being 7.4 per cent, higher than dozens of dials, scales, and meters, superchargers are set in high in October 1934. 2. More coul was raised (19,800,- but "Number 300 bristles with blower gear, the plune cost $120,- sonment last May for
insulting 000 tons) than in any month hem. Three radios are set to feed 000, the equipment, $50,000.
the German signals into Tomlinson's handset nt the touch at a dinl. Often he uses Tomlinson, and a varying person-nation, was visited by two radios at once.
One of the most interesting of condition which they may meet Reuter's correspondent meters on the panel board is the in the sub-stratosphere, 4. Good news of cotton. Last artificial horizon. On this dial, al To-day, while all other airline in his prison at Pre-
month 120,000,000lbs of raw tiny plane appears as
flight pilota scan their maps for favour- ungesheim, outside cotton were delivered to mills, against a horizontal bar across the ing winds and Amooth courses, compared with 90,000,000lbs. Indial. Should "Number 300's" nose Tomlinson shops for
opposite Frankfurt. September and 109,000,000lbs. dip off the horizon in a fog, the weather-an ice storm.
Mr. Rohme is an Austrian sub- His de-icing equipment, both on a year ago.
tiny plane's noso dips below its 5. Woel textile Industry wage in-horizon line. If "Number 300's" propellers and wings, has been ject, but his English-born wife dex figure was 110.4 A month right wing dips, the tiny plane tested thoroughly in "rime ice" and her four children live in frozen alush. Sheaveshill - avenue, Hendon. earlier 104.7-and-a-year age follows the action automatically. which resembles
There are
two such artificial Now he wishes to try the equip N.W., and Mrs. Rohme has been ment on "clear ice," which forme making every effort to have her The average motorist has to a sheet-United Pre83,
husband released. Ihs. produced. being more than measure his gasoline supply and three
times output of 1930. distance travelled to learn what Natural silk mills 93 per cent,mileage he is getting for his gaso- busier than in 1930..
Washington, Dec. 20. What phenomena will man dis- cover if he ever penetrates the stratosphere and voyages on intel outer space?
Dr. William J. Humphreys, in charge of the weather bureau's re- search work, is speculatingTMon what lies beyond the 14 mile marki reached for the arst time by the Balloon Explorer II.
Nobody knows for sure because none has been there, just as sallors did not know--before the dis covery of American-what lay be yond the Atlantic ocean, But Dr. almost Humphreys said he was positive the temperature in the ionisphere," a region, approxim ately 50 to 75 miles above sea level, was ns warm as the tempera-| tures of a summer day in the United States. That is, close to 100 degrees above zero,
Humphreys explained scientists generally agreed to this!
that
100.2.
6. Production in artificial silk horizon indicators,
created new record-12,520,000
in
7. Plans for houses passed
October 85 per cent, greater in value than in 1930-another
new record,
8. More money circulating. Bank.
clearances averaged £21,500,000 daily, nearly £1,000,000 above i
Science Says-
In
average for busy Christmas quarter of last year.
9 Shipping freighta ruse 15 per cent. above basic average of five years ago, compared with decline of 2 per cent. only a -month earlier.
theory because it was the region WE ARE LIVING IN
where meteors and shooting stars cutch Are on their rush toward the earth, where sound waves bounce back to earth again and where the auroras are scen.
But the Ionisphere explorer would find no nlr to breathe and
he probably would burst.
The content of any given space of air would be much rarer than at the earth's surface. Dr. Humphreys said the lack of air) would be more marked than the difference between standing room on Broadway on New Year's Evel when thousands are crowded to gether and a southwestern desert where there is not even one settler to 40 square miles.
A "COCK-EYED
WORLD
22
Atomic Weights Are All Wrong
The correspondent found Mr. Rohme in a cell measuring 13 ft. by 6 ft. A strongly barred. window, with a casement which can be opened or closed by the prisoner, admitted light and air.
FOLDING BED
Swung up against the wall on one side was a folding bed, with a seaweed mattress. There was 1 amall wardrobe-case, a table, a chair and a small electric light on
Evanston, Ill., Dec, 18. The chemist's table of atomie weights was believed upset recently by an accidental discovery by the wall.
Mr. Rohme was wearing a jne- youthful assistant professor of chemistry at North-western Uni-ket and pair of trousers of the re- versity.
gulation alate-blue prison colour. Dr. Malcoln Dole, 32, sald he had When he goes to exercise he wears proved "beyond doubt" that oxygen, boots and a military-looking cap. basic measurement of the elements of the universe, weigh more in air than in water,
-
Mr. Rohme stood at attention na
his visitor entered his cell. Ho was ordered to go to the Director's
To chemists his discovery, if office. In his hand he held the 19
Our Earth Is A Top-side Magnet substantiated. is as revolutionary lotters which he had received from
Same 25,000 Miles Acros.
Charlottesville, Va., Dec. 20. "Science lets it be known that we're really living in a "cockeyed world."
as telling the layman that 12 inches his wife since he entered the pri do not make a foot.
son on May 17.
"I am grateful to have three let- Dr. Dele's discovery was an- nounced in an interview in the ters a month from my dear wife," Daily News Index of Evanston. He he said. "I am allowed to send
I was testing two types of water to one letter home a month. determine their qualities when he not allowed to criticise the prison, chanced upon the difference in the but I may otherwise describe ali weights of oxygen. Finding his the details of my life, including the instruments did not check, he at food I get. first assumed the error was either
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ENGLISH BOOKS
am
Dr. Robert A. Millikan, Nobel prize winner, told the National Academy of Science here that he recently completed a cosmic ray map which shows that the world is a lop-sided magnet some Any particles in the air in the 25,000 miles across. Ionisphere would be lonized or The California Institute of pulled toward the north Magnetic electrified, he explained. Electric Technology professor, who worked pole just as compass needles are currents passing through this out the map with Dr. 11. V. Neher, attracted toward it on the earth's not lie between the elements at work, but they are entertaining
the equatorial
"The books from the prison 11-
in the hydrogen or oxygen.
"To my surprise," he told United Press, "I found the difference did brary are not enough for scientific
rarified air act just as a mercury found cosmic ray intensity greater surface.
but in the oxygen itself. The dif- and help to pass the time. The are light, throwing off a light.
Millikan estimated magnetic ference in parts per million was library has some English books. Radio engineers have known for in India than at
am sorry that I am not able to section of the Western hemisphere. force 4,000 miles upward was one found to be 4.6 which is of course which are a special consolation. I "radio
very slight." years that there WAS D
In other words, these "mysterious eighth as strong as at sea level,
Dr. Dole reported to the Ameri-work, because life in a prison cell roof" which stopped the radio
The cosmic ray map was con waves and sent them back to earth messengers from the outside space,"
"I am a Catholle and I go to or bent them so they shuttled which are the current passion of structed after nine ships had can chemical society that the diff hecomea very lonely.
church regularly; I an! very along the roof."
research workers, are not equally carried self-recording machines ence was calculated after two ex- Scientists are not sure whether the "Ionisphere" } divided even among what might be across the oceans. These devlees periments by electrolysis of water grateful whenever 1 may talk, to
ran automatically for three months, ono of water from taak hydrogen which Dr. Humphreys described is called magnetle equatora.
"To-day I had a small photo- Cosmic rays are attracted toward needing only winding every seven and oxygen derived from liquid air, the chaplain.
and the other of normal water. the same as the "radio roof."
days. L. T. Samuels, assistant chief of Earth's magnetic poles from dis Dr. Fred E. Wright of the The oxygen of both was burned with graph from my family. They are the Aerology division of the tances 15,000 miles above the Geophysical laboratory, Carnegie tank hydrogen and the difference allowing me to put it on the wall
of my cell.. dis- calculated, - bureau, who supervises the send- world's surface, Millikan explained. Institution of Washington,
Unexplained results of other "It was naturally dimcult for Ing of sounding balloons Into the Magnetic pull seems to reach out-cussed craters on the moon in. sky, said the highest free balloons ward that far to grasp any charged another effort to explain events scientists may be solved by the dia- me to got used to the food. The carrying any instruments-mere particle and draw it toward the many thousands of miles upward in covery. The late Dr. E. W. Wash greatest difficulty was the coarse space. Ho said the size of craters burn discovered oxygen in the air Gorman groy, bread, made of rye. midgets compared with the 3,700,-poles. 000 cuble foot capacity Explorer Space explorers could travel-a from two miles, to as high as 150 is heavier than in water: Ravision But I am used to all that now; and
regular relationship, in-of chemistry textbook may result, I cannot complain." - II which carried two men and tons thousand times na far outward as showed of instruments had reached 23 man has gone into the stratosphere dicating they may have lind common University chemists said.-United Mr. Rohme was led back to his
.coll, miles,-United Press.
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