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THE "OLIVE BRANCH”

icitness at Tower Bridge' last month said that "several men were fighting in a public house." The name of the house, it appeared, was the Olive Branch.

SOME WONDERS OF THE STRATOSPHERE

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at the height where sound waves |sre reflected there is a belt of ozone, which traps most of the sun's ultra-violet rays and turns them into heat,

This crone belt is exceedingly thin and varies a great deal in altitude, but it is being made to tell us quite a lot about the wes- ther we experience on the ground.

Twenty miles below the regions where the ozone is most concen- trated, there is nearly always an area of depression, with bad wea ther. Fuller knowledge of this remote zone would be of incalcul- able value to weather-forecasting: we may yet allow the spectroscope to fix our holiday dates for us

All this information has been discovered without sending up balloons bat with light-rays and }sound-waves. Still more can be learnt from wireless wares--one of the most powerful weapons for stratosphere research yet devised. lonised Air

Just as sound waves are Te-

In 1892 Oliver Heaviside sug- gested that there might be a layer; of ionised air -- highly conductive of electricity-at a great height in the atmosphere; 30 years later Countess Isabel von Ostheim, of Count would have accepted a full the exploring wireless ware prov- Rudice Park, Box, near Bath, was apology and an undertaking fromed that he was right awarded £5 damages at Bristol Mrs. Pinker as to the future. Assizes last month for alleged. Giving evidence, Mr. Fry stated flected by the high temperature of slander.

that in a conversation with Mrs. the ozone layer, so long wireless The action, which was brought Pinker she said: "I like the old waves are turned down again, by the "Heaviside layer" of ionised against a gardener and his wife, stick, but I don't like her.”

It is this which enables was heard by Mr. Justice Mackin-i

Count von Ostheim stated that gases.

curva- non and a special jury.

after the purchase of Budloe Park them to travel round the Defendants were Mr. Frederick in 1933, his mother-in-law's adopt-ture of the earth.

In 1927, an eclipse of the moon Pinker and Mrs. Cecily Edithed son .came to live with them. Pinker, his wife, of H View, From 1934 he noticed an atmos-proved this layer to be due to ultra- Ditteridge. Wilts, but at the close phere around them of impoliteness violet rays from the sun. Short wireless waves are able to pene- of the case for the Countess Mr.and veiled insolence. Pinker was struck out of the His wife had never been in very trate the Heaviside layer, but are action.

good health, but

matters stopped by a much higher belt of affected her very inuch. She had & ionisation discovered by Profes-

breakdown and became sor Appleton.

This takes us 140 miles above unhappy. Life became impossible

atmosphere of uneasiness, the earth, and brings us into con- they had decided to teavetinuous contact with missies from fouter Rudloe Part

space. The "shooting stars," belong to

Trouble With Servant.

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in an

Mr. Robert Fortune, for Coun- tess von Ostheim, said that she brought the action to protect her and character and

from reputation

von Ostheim, who belonged to an have jold German family.

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Why He Did Not Accept was formerly a British subject,

Replying to Mr. Justice Mackin-zone, and the layer itself is caused Miss Neilson, and in November,

which are 'shot out from the sun. 1932, she married in Paris Count non, the Count said that he would by a rain of electrified particles

been prepared to accept a decent kind of apology, and the These "corpuscular rays" are also could have been settled believed to be the primary cause A year later the Countess matter

jof the aurora. bought the property at Box. Soon there and then.

Three "Bounce" Mr. Justice Mackinnon read the afterwards there was some trouble

A wireless signal may ricochet with the servants, and the Count first two sentences of a second let- and Countess noticed a sinister ter of apology written by Mrs. many times between such layers SAILINGS atmosphere of hostility and con-Pinker in which she said, "I bum-and the earth; last year, a short- from East bly apologise for what I have wave signal sent up tempt around them.

They had living with them, hav-said and I assure you it shall not London made no fewer than three ing no children of their own, a happen again. Believe me when 1"bouncer" before being finally rel the ceived at King's College, in little boy, the adopted son of the say I am very sorry."""

von Strand. The judge asked Count Countess's mother, Mrs. Neilson.

These "bounces" occurred zt accept Finally they engaged a private Ostheim why he did not detective, Mr. Arthur Fry, who, in that. The Count said he took ex-Liverpool-street, St. Paul's Cathe October, 1935, had a conversation ception to the rest of the letter in dral and Ludgate Circus, and with Mrs. Pinker, when he said which Mrs. Pinker said: "Please though 140 miles high, each oc- one six-hundredth he thought of taking employment don't expect me to apologise for cupied only with the Count and Countess. two years' slander, as that is un-part of a second!

true and I refuse to do so.”

All over the Empire there are! "Fond Of A Gay Life"

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The Countess was not called.

"Theatres And Dances" Mrs. Pinker said in evidence that detective, as she now knew

lishment. Work of great import- ance is being done in India by Professor Mitra, of Calcutta Uni- versity.

Cosmic Rays

she goes to London for gay time."

Mr. Justice Mackinnon: Is him, called and said he was apply- Though Britain leads in this "stick" supposed to be an adjective (ing for a job and would like to type of stratosphere exploration,

know something about the place. the balloon ascents must not Mr. Fortune: Presumably it is He asked: "What kind of a man is underrated, for they have supple-

his lordship?"

mented the information obtained vernacular for "the_Count."

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Mr. Pinker, he added, was the "I replied, He is a funny old indirectly by a sufficient body of head gardener and lived with his stick." Mrs. Pinker continued direct evidence to prove the theore- wife in the lodge in the park "He said could he see her ladyship, tical work sound.

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illegitimate boy of the Countess" ftres and dances' He said, 'Are ether waves, and the halloon

and I said, cents have proved that their in- Mr. Fortune referred to an in-there any children?' terview between the Count, Mr. Her ladyship's child, she adopted tensity increases with height.

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Fry revealed that he was a detec- Speaking of the interview with ing the possibility of harnessing | tive, and. Mrs. Pinker was alleged the Count and the detective, Mrs. the enormous energy of the cosmic times MOTE to have said, "I thought so, and 1 Pirker said she denied saying that rays, which are 36

He de reckon it's a dd dirty trick" the child was illegitimate. On powerful than X-rays. Fry repeated what he alleged Mrs that occasion she jumped up, clares that a slight advance Pinker had said, and she stated: caught hold of a chair, and said to science, would enable a city like London to be lighted at a cost of the detective: "You are a liar.” "I didn't say it.”

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Half-Hearted Apologies Her husband said, "Shut your She explained that she meant no mouth up. This is the first disrespect by the use of the phrase have heard of any conversation "old stick.” between her and you. I have told

Cross-examined,

There are practical issues to all this scientific exploration of the Mr. Pinker upper atmosphere, and most im her about this before, but you said the Countess had told her portant is the question of stratos- know what it is, a woman cannot herself that the child was adopted phere travel. A Bristol firm is keep her mouth shat?

She wrote an apology because her actually engaged in building an

Mr. Pinker, according to Mr.husband told her to do so, as they aeroplane, to Air Ministry speci Fortune, also said: “I am sorry it had threatened to throw him outfication, which will fly at a height happened, but if I speak to her it of his job. She had never said of 12 miles.

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