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Washington, July 6.
The United States Navy high command, assured of authority and money to build the battle fleet up to treaty limits has nove turned its attention to merchantman and auxiliary ship construction.
The Navy has awarded contracts to fill up deficiencies in virtually all categories of warships, and a major portion of these vesaola will join the fleet prior to December 31, 1937. The auxiliary construction programme, however, has Ingged far be- hind and as a result, the fleet during manoeuvres has been ham- pered seriously because supply and repair vessels were not sufficiently speedy to keep pace with the warships,
Endictment of the Copeland-Bland | consideration during the session Justi ship subsidy bill, Jaimed throughfended because they feared such af Congress Is the closing house of move coupled with the huge appro- the session Just ended, laid the priations for warship construction. groundwork for the construction of might arouse the ire of Congress- fast merchant vessels, readily connen from Inland states. vertible into troopships,
Indications were that the ын would be reintroduced next session
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The Copeland-Bland act authorised and pushed through to enactment. the federal government to pay to Although there will be some opposi- displays, dances and popular comedies during the Olym Thousands of schoolgirls in Berlin will participate in private builder a quatruction mblon to the programme, its passage ple games. In the picture above the girls are being measured sidly equal to one-third of the sum is required to construct the vessel
virtually asured because the For the dresses,
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a foreign shipyard. The Govern its full support to urgent requests of ment la exceptional cases is au- the Naval high command. thorised to increase the subsidy up to 50 per cent. of the rest of com struction. These subsidies were de signed to off-set the lower cost of construction f Great Dritain and Japan.
Indicative of the speed at which the limits imposed by the Washing- the battle fleet 13 being built up to ton and London naval armament treaties, is the report issued construction progress
by the navy depart meat on June 10.
According to this report, two new aircraft carriers will join the fleet in 1947 and one in 1930. One heavy cruiser went into active service early in June, another will be completed the Spring of 1930. in January next year and a third in
Under provisions of the net, it is mandatory for the government to take over subsidized ships in times of war or national emergency and to pay their private owners only the setual money they spent in con- struction of the vessels, if privately owned shipping lines refuse to take advantage of the subsidy, the govern- Seven light cruisers of the Huno- mont is authorised to cancel the lulu class will be completed next ocean wait contracts held by those year and two in 1039. One sub- comfinnies and construct snips on
marine will be ready for service in its own behalf. Experts believed December this year, six will Join the that the subsidy programme will fleet in 1937 and live in 1938, Five provide a devided impetus to ner-1,850 tons destroyers are scheduled chant ship construction within the to be delivered to the Navy this year. 1 next few years.
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The next problem of the Navy is lo secure congressional authorisation for the construction of flect nuxiliaries such as mine layers, pair and supply ships, tenders, and kindred vessels.
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of the ARE COMING Curl Vinson liouse naval affairs curranitteelu troduced an auxiliary construction programme bill in Congress last. session. The bill was reported out of committee favourably but it fall- ed to receive considerallon on the floor.
It was believed that administra- tion leaders purposely fulted to push
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Mr. Geoffrey Faber had asked at a sectional meeting if the habit of reading was in danger of being supplanted by some new habit in direct competition with the old.
"Broadcasting, in spite of its short life, is already confronted by the saturation problem in con- structing programmes," Mr. Faber stated.
"This problem will be solved by the provision of several alternative programmes, one of which will be Bargely devoted to broadcast read-
ings.
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"The gramophone companies, will, sooner or later, put the 'talking book' on the market. Already there are alking books' for the blind on speciai slow-playing records.
"If the
'optical gramophone Is perfected talking books' will be sold in little bundles of paper tape. Both the broadcast and the 'talking book will use sound effects to sug- gest background."
The Best books to be explòlied would be non-copyright books, but the copyright field would soon be tuvided, stated' Mr. Faber, ....
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The congress carried a resolutiuni to the effect that publishers should,
principle, have the right to! exercise control, jointly with the author, over the use of materia!! published by them for the purposes of broadcasting and mechanical re- produellon, and the right also to on
Nature
Germans Invent An Element
Three German scientists have proved that it is possible to manufacture new chemical elements found nowhere in nature. They are Professor Otto Hahn, Director of the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institute, Berlin, Germany's most famous research laboratory, and Professor Luise Meitner und Herr F. Strassmann, also of the Institute,
For a full generation science has believed that 92 represented, the complete tally of chemical elements-copper, oxygen, lead and so on-and that, beyond filling in one or two gaps in what is called the "table of chemical elements." there was nothing more to be done.
That there were these gaps were deduced from the fnet that the physical and chemical properties of the different elements follow a more for less definite pattern. It was known, therefore, that the missing elements must exist, and known also what they would be like when found---und everyone was satisfied.
RADIO-ACTIVE
Now, it has been proved possible, by bombard- ing the atoms of uranium, the heaviest and most complex of any existing, clement, to make at least five now, elements whose atoms are heavier and more complex still.
FIVE MAJOR AIRLINES BATTLE FOR VICTORY
IN INTERNATIONAL WAR'
Santa Monica, Calif., July 1. Five major airlines in this country, and a score of European aviation experts are watching with hopeful eyes the slow progress of a half-million dollar gamble conducted in a huge airbarn here by a soft-voiced, middle-aged acrónautical engineer. The engineer is George Strompl; ↑ recently-buil factory superintendent of Douglas Aircraft company, and the ouf- come of the gamble, if it is successful, will mean-
1. Commercial around-the-world-a- week air service within the next five years,
.2. Nine-hour non-stop trana- continental air service between Call-i fornia and New York, with super- skyliners bigger than the Pan American clipper ships, travelling at a cruising speed of 260 miles an hour.
3. Airliners ranging over the frozen Arctic wastes in a new series of "Over the top of the world" airways, bind- lag Europe and America by alr
The gamble is a new 50 ton Douglas "Air giant," under construction here, twice the size of the China Clipper. with a cruising radius of 10,000 milea-
planes. and faster than modern army pursuit
Strompt, will bring into the realm
The Douglas "giant," according to
of actual transport service the one factor that has baulked around-the- world alrscrviče-a, cruising range capable of negotiating long jumps, or carrying safely over the polar cap.
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The Arctic occap as an air channel for inter-hemisphere air traffic has long been the dream of aviation leaders, who have foreseen in the Northern wastes a medium of fast, direct air routes between the contin- ents. Vitimately it is expected the Arctic seas will become to air travel what the Mediterranean sea became for ships.
Landing stations for refuelling, at Wrangel Island and similar points, would permit an easy jump over the stormy polar cap, connecting either San Francisco or New York with London.
The new plane, with four. 1,000 horsepower engines, and a spred equal to the fastest modern airliners when the new glaut Ja throttled down to 60 per cent. of Iv power, is expected to supply the answer.
Engineers have been working secretly for several months in a guarded bangar. The plane is under contract to Unlted Air lines, Trans- continental and Western, American airlines, Eastern Airlines and Pan- American Airways, bullder, of the trans-Pacific clipper planes.
It is scheduled to take the air Jan. 1..1938, and will be the sequel in the swift increase in airliner bulk, to the
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"Douglas
Pullman
Plane" which made test fights at Santa Monica airport this winter.
The Douglas Pullman, twice the size of an ordinary ar transport, will be dwarfed by the new plane,
If the plane feels successfully, each of the combining airline companies will take five of the new super liners. None will be put into service tinti, all 25 are built. United Airlines and TWA will then order an additional five planes for each service, and an- her 25 are expected-to-be-built-for- European airlines.
According to avlation experts, the ultimate routing of air traffic between this country and Europe and Asia will Inevitably be directed over the polar caps on a "great circle route" charted with land fuelling stations on both sites of the point cap.
The distance over the top of the world" routes from San Francisco to Oslo, fur instanco, would be only a little longer than the present airline distance from New York to London- United Press.
All the new artificial elements are radlo-active, like radlum and uran- ium. That, it is believed, is why they are not found, In nature. They are too unstable to survive.
The story of the discovery is some- thing of a romance. As long as two years ago. Professor Enrico Fermi, of Rome, and his co-workers discuss- l. tentatively the possibility that they had produced in the laboratory an element whose atoms were heavler than those of uranium.
Professor Fermi was well known us a theoretical physicist. Never be fore had he appeared in the role of
perimentalist.
The result was applause, followed yo' for as this part of his work was concerned by polite scepticism. The work of other scientists appeared to disercdit Professor Fermi's interpreta- tion of his experiments, and “Element No. 93," as it had been christened, was allowed to relapse into obscurity.
THEORY PROVED
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Now these Berlin scientists have pot paly Justified Professor Fermi's belief, but have extended his work and provided proof.
In spite of the great difficuity of applying chemical tests to the minute amounts of the new elements produc- cd, they have according to Nature been, able to separate them, not only from
any existing, eternent, but from one another.
According to their own report of their work, the cheinleat tests and method of separation which they have devised must apparently be accepted as decisive.
Selence, therefore, in this mutter, has beaten nature. The only doubt, It appears, is whether the number, of new elements discovered is five or six.
Skeleton A "Mere Sixty"
Million Years Old
Princeton, NJ., Juna 27.
Dr. Glenn L. Jepsen of the geology department of Princeton University, announced yesterday the discovery of a complete fossil skeleton more than 60,000,000 years old.
PICKABACK IN THE AIR: A COMPOSITE
A new principle Ini heroplane design for, the Atlantic air service is to be tried in England.
He said it was found in the Dig Hom
Basin of Wyoming by the 1935 Scott fund expedition of the university, which was under his di- rection. The bones have, just been removed from the rocky matrix in which they were imbedded. Albert Thomson, of the American Museum of Natural History declared it was the must difficult specimen to pre- pare that he had ever handled, Dr Jepsen reported.
Dr. Jepsen said the hyold bones of the throat, scarcely an eighth of an inch long and no larger in diameter than a horse hair, were perfectly preserved. The skeleton, he said, was that of an animal of the Paleo- cene epoch about the size of a smáll rat. Only a few toes were missing.
Dr. Jepsen judged from the lengila of the hind legn that the animal was of the leaping variety sirailar to the modern lémur, He said it was by far the most complete skeleton of that age yet found.
quired height, the passenger plane la released from its highly powered and Hightly loaded "parent". craft.
The release in mid-air enables the transatlantic' 'plano to tako off nafely while carrying the large fuel load necessary for its fight.
At top the Atlantic plane is seen, _in_the_middle" the "purpul" machind and at bottom the two-machines. In flight together.
Two machines take the air, joined together, ons shove the other, we
After both have cilmbed to the red. The trials will be made next month,
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