THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1935.
Another Stratosphere Flight Soon
INTO THE BLUE
Washington, Oct. 1.
Another flight into the stratosphere will be attempted in the Stratobowl, near Rapid City, South Dakota, some- time this month. Exact date. will de- pend upon ́suitable weather conditions; weather maps indicate that the best stratosphere flying weather is in the early part of the month.
Plans for this scheduled flight are continuation of the one which failed to materialise last June due to the unex- pected blowing-out of the top of the balloon during the process of inflation, according to officers of the National Geographic Society, which is sponsor- ing the flight with the co-operation of the United States Army Air Corps.
Practically the same person- nel assigned to navigate thel damaged balloon was reassigned]
the by Army authorities to
light in October. Captain Albert W. Stevens will be commander. Captain Orvil A. Anderson. pilot) and Captain Randolph P. Williams, in charge of ground preparations.
The balloon which would have been used Just June was only: alightly damaged, it was said. A new top of novel design is being constructed in Akron, Ohio. When the rip-panel of the big balloon opened up last time, it was the first such occurrence in the history of ballooning,
The First Flight
The first stratosphero fight in the United States under auspices of the National Geographic and
TL
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SHIRLEY TEMPLE.
Shirley Temple, the little American film girl, representa«
a grandmother in her latest Fox release.
Lincoln Ellsworth Plans
Last Glorious Adventure
PERILOUS FLIGHT OVER ROSS SEA.
Rio De Janeiro, Oct. 5.
Lincoln Ellsworth sails for Montevideo soon to com- plete plans for another attempt to span the Antarctic by plane-the "last great adventure," because it is the last large unexplored land-mass.
The 14,000-ton 'Wyatt Earp, former herring boat, which has taken Ellsworth expéditions 53,000 miles in quest of 24-hour trans-polar flight is waiting for her mas ter in Montevideo harbour.
By Oct. 15, the crew of 16 should be aboard and the expedition ready to depart for U.S. Army was made in the Ex-Dundee Island or Snow Hill Island at the Weddell Sen, plerer I, balloon containing whence Ellsworth and his Canadian pilot Hallock Kenyon, 3,000,000 cubic feet. The Explorer | 11 in which the October flight will will attempt for the sixth time the dangerous 2,800 mile be attempted is larger by 700,000 hop to the Ross Sca. cubic feet.
The non-inflammable and non-j
"It is a true pioneer flight,"
explosive gas, helium, will be used the explorer explained. "I am to inflate the balloon, hydrogen not interested in the resources was used in the first light.
of the continent, even if it is full
The October flight is expected of gold. But this huge tract is to reach a height of 14 miles, 5,000,000 square miles in extent. compared with 11 miles attained
-as large as Europe and Aus- by the Explorer in 1934.
The balloon will be guarded by tralia combined, and only 10 per all manner of safety devices. It cent. of it has been explored. will carry parachutes, shock absor-With material from this flight, bers, and a special flask containing I hope to be able to build a
a mixture of oxygen and nitrogen framework of knowledge which, which will keep the crew alive in later expeditions can enlarge case of-a-bud leak in the gondola.
-upon.~~-
The balloon will penetrate as far as possible through the air and get a good idea of conditions above, National Geographic effeials stat- Land.
Graham Land First
"Our first halt will be at Graham
We will establish a plane
ed. More than a score of instru-base either on Dundee Island or ments will be carried aloft to make Snow Hill Island, off the Graham scientific studies.
Island const, and wait for fair con- ditions to hop off. I have fixed
Study The Sun
It was said that the light of the the dead-line for the hop Jun. 1 sun can be studied more accurately because after this date the heat of from the stratosphere. Scientlats the sun melts the ice and causes are anxious to learn more about fogs.
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the ozone gas that exists in the "We can never be sure of the upper air. The mysterious cosmic weather and must take the risk of rays will also be studied by the being forced to land and dig-in... navigatora, it was said.
My plane is the low-wing mono-
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LINCOLN ELLSWORTH we must take a risk."
TWO MOTHERS LEVEL
FOR $500,000 PRIZE
TORONTO'S
"STORK" SWEEPSTAKE
RUNNER-UP HINTS AT SURPRISE
Toronto, Oct. 3.
The "Stork Sweepstakes" appear to have narrowed to two contestants, with Mrs. John Nagel, 30, favoured to win the rich prize of $500,000 M5 Toronto's most prolific mother.
Mra. Nagel went into a tie in the race with Mrs. Matthew Kenny when she gave birth to her 10th child since 1926-the date when Charles Vance Millar, eccentric sportsman and lawyer, died and left a will be- quenthing a 'sum that will amount to half a million dollnts to the "Toronto mother, who, within 10 years after my death, gives birth to the greatest num- ber of children."
The child born to Mrs. Nagel August 26th is a girl. Her family now eunsists of five sons and five daughters.
WILL HE RETURN ?
cheered Trainlonds of Inughing, soldiers are leaving Rome to join the Italian Army in East Africa. There are scenes reminiscent of the years of the Great War on the platforms as young soldiers take leave of their Tamilies.
Professor
Invents The supremely Robot Mind
Mrs. Nagel WHIN happy and entirely confident.
"I'm sure I'll win," she said. "I'm young and strong and both John and I want a lot of children."
John. the husband, who stays by
TOY THAT NEVER FORGETS
"
New York, Sept. 30.
professor of psychology in “We may buy a form when we ❘ the University of Washington, win the money.!" he said. "We'll claims to have invented a robot have so many children I seems with a memory. farm would be the best place to keep them.
her bed, echoed the sentiment. DR. STEVENSON SMITH,
The robot is a mechanical rat which is able to perceive and re- It runs through a maze Mrs. Nagel is slender, pretty, member, and a born Cahadian of English and, in finding its way out, displays extraction. She carefully has re-more intelligence than a normal gistered all her children so there human being. can be no question of her right
The rat runs on a track, and to claim the prize next year...
is propelled by electricity.
Mrs. Kenny, 32, who has 16 children, 10 of whom were born after the Millar will and who are entered in the race, merely sniffed when she heard the news of the Nagel arrival. A
"I'm still in the race and I may have a surprise for you soon," she told newspapermen. She announe-
Switches are placed at vari- ous points along the track. There are two directions in which the rat may turn. It always turns right first. If. that is a blind alley it follows the left-hand track.
Every time it makes an error the. mistake is registered" on
its "memory disc." When it reaches the end of the maze it is able to
ed some time ago that she expects make the trip without fault by unother child in the fall. Her referring automatically to its arti- husband is an unemployed labourer, fieial memory.
A third loading contestant, Mrs.
Grace Bagnato, 42, also was con- Coward
fident of success chielly because of her ability to have twins. She is the mother of 20 children and is only a lap behind Mrs. Nagel and Mr. Kenny. Nine of her children have been born since the race started nine years ago.
"There's still more than a year to go," she said to-night, "and hav ing twins runs in all the women of my family. If I win the money I'm going to take all my children. out into the country and give them everything they want."-United. Press,
HOLIDAY WEATHER 100 YEARS HENCE.
Pole is one land-maas or The main aeronautical interest in plane type, so we can entrench it South
Antarctic the flight is the study of winds of in the snow to wing-level and avold whether the so-called the upper air, it was said. Air-the danger of a gale catching in the continent is really two land-masses planes are flying higher and faster, wings and turning over. Other divided by a strait linking the Wed- wecking to take advantage of the essentials in a plane for this sort dell Sea and the Ross Sea, and second whether hills of Victoria prevailing winds at high levels and of flight are high-speed and long Land on the Ross Sea side are an to get above the dangerous, clouds cruising-range. A single motor is isolated mountain and storms.
range or in- 2035 used because we will not have to tegrally a part of the Andes of Agriculture will benefit by carry so much gasoline. successful flight, it was stated. "Once on our way, we will radio which the Graliam Land mountains Winds of the upper air are cur- the Wyatt Earp to start its 3,000-also are a part.
Ellsworth was inclined to dis- riers of tiny spores of various mile cruise around the continent to fungi, some of which cause serious pick us up on the other side. The credit Admiral Richard E. Byrd's diseases of crops and plant while sea-trip will take five weeks. On statement that Antarctfen was de- others are beneficial or harmless to board the plane we will carry man. As an aid in fighting the emergency rations for just this dinenses that these spores spread, time." scientists want to know whether or not spores can rise to the great heights where there are prevalling winds, and if so whether or not they can live at, auch heights.
BRINGING IN THE HARVEST.
Scoks Data On Land Mass
finitely one land-mass.
"Without trying to detract from Admiral Byrd's work, I believe his announcement was
premature, When one considers how little is knows of this great continent, it The main objectives of the may take many expeditions many. expedition, Ellsworth revealed, years to decide the matter definite- are to determine in the first place, |ly." if the 5,000,000 square mile ex- panse of lee and snow around the
Machines réplace men for the harvest in sunny Calif
Flying Weather Doubtful Speaking of the dangers of polar exploration, Ellsworth said that wonther in the Anturetle regions was instable, including an average of only about three flying days a month.
"It is impossible to forecast con- ditions far ahead," he continued. "We must take the risk of being forced to land and to 'dig-in,' hoping for a chance to continue before our rations give out. Our lives may depend on being picked up quickly by the Wyatt Earp If we ever reach the Ross Son side. Floating ico is an ever-present danger, but the ship is protected with iron on the bows and oak shoathing half the way around and is powered with semi-Diesel engines."
ADVANCE REPORT
IN 1935
Washington, Sept. 30. Science's dream of forecasting the weather 100 years in advanco appears on the verge of achieve- ment. New data released by the famous Smithsonian Institute on weather' supports theories cycles of Dr. Charies Abbot, the Institute secretary.
Dr. Abbot had prepared advance forecasts for the years 1934, 1935 and 1936, and those for 1934 have! now been opened and found to be amazingly accurate.
Becomes
A Hero
LEGION TRIBUTE TO
A
BRAVEST MAN Sidi-bel-Abbas, Sept. 28. "The bravest man I ever knew."
"He WIK coward." This paradox might well serve as an epitaph for a hero of the French Foreign Legion to whom honour has been paid this week by all ranks of the Legion.
'Legionary 79,493" is dead after an agony of nine weeks. Before the assembled men of the first battalion of the French Foreign |Legion, General Legros, the divi- sional commander, paid this magnificent tribute to the hero who is buried with a number in- stead of a namel
1
The bravest man I ever knew. He was a credit to the Legion, living up to its finest traditions, never flinch. ing, never showing fear.
the recent campaign in the Atlas he fought single-handed 18 fierce tribesmen, and though covered the wounds that have now with brought death to him, he never vicided.
the
wed by his
magnificent courage, Rurviving enemy abandoned the attack, leaving nine of their number deed to attest the prowess of the man we honour to-day,"
Sentenced To Death'
on-
The key to the forecasts was' the discovery that the sun maintains a twenty-three-year The man thus eulogised was cycle of radiation and that the David Kerr, who during the world weather varies generally in war was a sergeant in a Canadian direct relationship to this regiment. But during the battle of cycle.
Passchendale ho turned tall and It is claimed that by com- fled when his battalion was at.. parison with data over twenty-tacking. He was captured, court three-year periods it is possible martialled and sentenced to death. to forecast with considerable The Commander-in-Chief accuracy the weather over the dorsed the sentence with the com- next twenty-three-year period. ment that it was "the worst case
"Local Conditions" Snag
of cowardice he had ever known." Dr. Abbot explains that local Kerr, however, escaped. Haunt- conditions may disturb the recur-ed by the memory of his cowardice rence of the cycle in certain area, he was obsessed by the idea of re- and not daring to return home but many of these factors are C-trieving his past. He enlisted In pected to be eliminated after more | thorough and intensive study of the Foreign Legion in 1919.
He was wounded nine times, and has been mentioned in Army Orders weather conditions.
for his bravery in action moro than any other member of the Legion during its long history.
Before his death he handed over will remain locked up in the and asked that it should be sent to
The forecasts for 1985 and 1936
a written statement of his past Smithsonian vaults. They will regimental headquarters In Canada not be published until Dr. Abbot with his Legion record to show is absolutely sure that the ap that he had done his best to make paront success for 1934 was not good the initial disgrace he had largely fortuitous.”
brought on the regiment
definite
An observer and navigator on the trans-polar hop, Ellsworth will take photographs of the leo- In addition to twenty-three-year structures passed over, hoping to cycle. studies indicate a glean from these the secret of the forty-six-year period over which continent's formation. A powerful the weather repeats Itself. radio aboard the plane will keep him in constant touch with the Wyatt Earp and with New York where his wife will be waiting for dally reporte on his progress. United Press.
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