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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 carly part of the month,

I

YOUNG' SHIRLEY

TEMPLE

Shirley Temple, the little American film girl, represents

astrandunther in her latest Fox release.

Lincoln Ellsworth Plans

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 the chimaged balloon was reassigned | by Army authorities to the aight 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 ballpon which would have only been used last June was alightly damaged, it was said. A new top of novel design is being When the rip-panel of the big balloon opened up last time, it was the first such occurrence in the history of ballooning.

constructed in Akron, Ohio.

The First Flight

The fire stratosphere fightin the United States under auspices

of the National Geographic and U.S. Army was made in the Ex-! plerer 1, n balloon

containing 3,000,000 cubic feet. The Explorer

11 in which the October fight will be attempted is larger by 700,000

cubic feet.

The non-inflammable and non- explosive gas, helium, will be used

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 Dundee Island or Snow Hill Island at the Weddell Sea. whence Ellsworth and his Canalian pilot Hallock Kenyon. will attempt for the sixth time the dangerous 2,800 mile hop to the Ross Sea.

"It is a true pioneer flight.” the explorer explained. "I am

to inflate the balloon. hydrogen not interested in the resources was used in the first flight.

of the continent, even if it is full

The October fight is expected of gold. But this huge tract is to reach a height of 14 miles, as 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 itcent, of it has been explored. all manner of safety devices. 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 bad feak in the gondola,

The balloon will penetrate as far as possible through the air and

upon.

Graham Land First

get a good idea of conditions-above ~"Our first halt will-be-at-Grübum- National Geographic officials stat- Land. 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 coast, and wait for fair con- ditions to hop off. I have fixed the dead-line for the hop Jan. 1

Study The Sun

It was said that the light of the

sun can be studied more accurately because after this date the heat of from the stratosphere. Scientists the sun melts the lee and causes are anxious to learn more

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 As Toronto's most prolific mother..

WILL HE RETURN ?

Mrs. 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 queathing 21 Stun that will amount to half a million dollars to the "Toronto mother, who, the Great War on the platforms na within 10 years after my death, young soldiers take leave of their

families. gives birth to the greatest num-į ber of children.'

The child born to Mrs. Nagel August 26th is.a girl. Her family now consists of five sons and five daughters.

Was

oldiers are leaving Rone to join the Trainloads of Inughing, ehrered talinn Army in East Africa. There are scenes reminiscent of the years of

Professor Invents The Supremely Robot Mind

Mrs. Nagel 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 her beil, echoed the sentiment.

TOY THAT NEVER FORGETS

R.

New York, Sept. 30.. STEVENSON SMITH,

Dprofessor of psychology in

"We may buy a farm when we the University of Washington, win the money," he said. “We'll claims to have invented a roixt have so many children it seems with a memory. farm would be the best place to keep them.

and

rat

The robot is a mechanical which is able to perceive and re- Mrs. Nagel is slender. pretty, member. It runs through a maze born Canadian of English and, in finding its way out, displays extraction. She carefully has re- more intelligence than gistered all her children so there human being. can be no question of her right to claim the prize next year.

Mrs. Kenny, 32., who has 16 children. 10 of whom were bornį after the Millar will and who are entered in the rate, merely suited when she heard the news of the Nagel arrival,

a normal.

The rat runs on a track, and is propelled by electricity,

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 - "I'm still in the race and finny mistake is registered on its have a surprise for you soon," she "memory dise." When it reaches told newspapernien. She announc-the end of the maze it is able to e some time ago that she expects make the trip without fault by another child in the full fer referring automatically to its arti husband is an unemployed labourer,ficial memory.

A third lending contestant, Mrs. Grace Bagnato, 42, also was con- fident of success chiefly because of her ability to have twins. She is the mother of 20 children and is only a lap behind Mrs. Nagel and

Coward

Becomes

Mrs. Kenny. Nine of her children A Hero

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 wants"-United Press,

about fogs. the ozone gus 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 tig-in. navigators. It was said.

the low-wing, mang- My plane is

land-mnes or The main aeronautical interest in plane type, so we can entrench it South Pole is one

whether the so-called Antarctic the flight is the study of winds of in the snow to wing-level and avoid continent is really two land-masses HOLIDAY WEATHER the upper air, it was said. Air-the danger of a gale catching in the divided by a strait linking the Wed-

100 YEARS HENCE dell Sea and the Rows Sea, and planes are flying higher and faster, wings and turning it over. Other seeking to take advantage of the essentials in a plane for this sort prevailing winds at high levels and of light are high-speed and long second whether hills of Victorin to get above the dangerous clouds cruising-range. A single motor is on the Ross Sea side are an

in- 2035 and storms,

used because we will not have to isolated mountain range

terally a part of the Andes of Agriculture will benefit by a carry so much gasoline. Ruccessful night it was stated. "Once on our way, we will radio which the Graham Land mountains Winds of the upper air are car-the Wyatt Earp to start its 3,000-als are a part.

Ellsworth was inclined to dis- riors of Liny spores

of variousmile cruise around the continent to fungi, some of which cause serious pick us up on the other side. The credit Adiniral Richard E. Byrd's diseases of crops and plant while sea-trip will take five weeks. On statement that Antarctica was de- others are beneficial or harmless to board the plane we will carry finitely one land-mass.

mam.

As an aid in fighting the emergency rations for just this diseases that these spores spread, time." sclentists want to know whether

or not spores can rise to the great heights where there are prevailing winds, and if so whether or not they can live at such heights.

BRINGING IN THE HARVEST

or

ADVANCE REPORT

IN 1935

Washington, Sept. 30. Science's dream of forecasting the weather 100 years in advance appears on the verge of achieve Admiral Byrd's work, I believe his famous

"Without trying to detract from ment. New data released by the Smithsonian Institute on weather announcement was premature. supports theories When one considers, how little is cycles of Dr. Charles Abbot, the known of this great continent, it Institute secretary. The main objectives the may take many expeditions many

revealed, years to decide the matter definite are to determine in the first place. y." if the 5,000,000 square mile ex- panse of ice and snow around the

Sccks Data On Land MassTM

expedition.

Ellsworth

Machines replace men for the harvest in sunny California.

of

Flying Weather. Doubtful Speaking of the dangers of polar exploration. Ellsworth said that weather in the Antarctic regions. was instable, including an average of only about three flying days a month.

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:

LEGION TRIBUTE TO BRAVEST MAN Sidi-bel-Abbas, Sept. 28. "The bravest man I ever knew."

"He was A 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 70,493" is dead after Before an agony of nine weeks. the assembled men of the first battalion of the French Foreign Legion, General Legros, the divi- sional

this commander, paid magnificent tribute to the hero who is buried with a number in- stead of a name!

The braveal man I ever knew. He Ivan a credit to the Legion, living up to its finest traditions, never flinch-

never showing fear,

ing, never

"In the recent campaign in the Atlas he fought single-handed 18 feree tribesmen, and though covered with the wounds that have brought death to him, he yielded.

NOW never,

"Awed by his magnificent courage, the surviving enemy abandoned the attack, leaving nine of their sumber dead to attent the prowess of the man we honog» to-day.”

was

The key to the forecasts was the discovery that the suN

Sentenced To Death maintains a twenty-three-year

The man thus eulogised 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 "It is impossible to forecast, con-

cycle.

Passchendale he turned tall and ditions for ahead," he continued.

It is claimed that by com- fled when his battalion was at "We must take the risk of being forced to land and to 'dfg-in," hoping

parison with data over twenty-tacking. He was captured, court three-year periods it is possible martialled and sentenced to death. for a chance to continue before our

to forecast with considerable The Commander-in-Chief en- |rations give out. Our lives may

accuracy the weather over the dorsed the sentence with the com depend on being picked up quickly

next twenty-three-year period. ment that it was the worst case by the Wyatt Earp if we ever reach

"Local Conditions" Snag of cowardice he had ever known." the Ross Seu side. Floating ice is

Dr. Abbot explains that local Kerr, however, escaped. Haunt- an ever-present danger, but the ship is protected with iron on the conditions may disturb the recured by the memory of his cowardice renco of the eyele in certain areas, and not daring, to return home bows and oak sheathing half the way around and is powered with but many of these factors are ex- he was obsessed by the idea of ro- pected to be eliminated after more trieving his past. He enlisted in soni-Diesel engines."

the Foreign Legion in 1919. An observer and navigator on thorough and intensive study of He was wounded nine times, and

weather conditions.

the trans-poiar hop, Ellsworth will

In addition to twenty-three-year for his bravery in action more has been mentioned in Army Orders take photographs of the ice-

definite structures passed over, hoping to cycle, studies indicate a glean from these the secret of the forty-six-year period over which than any other member of the

| Legion during its long history. continent's formation. A powerful the weather repeats itself.

'Before his death he handed over The forecasts for 1935 and 1936) radio aboard the plane will keep

thela written statement of his past him in constant touch with the will remain locked up in

They will and naked that it should be sent to Wyatt Earp and with New York, Smithsonian vaults.

regimental, headquarters in Canada where his wife will be waiting for not be published until Dr. Abbot with his "Legion record to show dally reports on his progress.e absolutely sure that the ap that he had done his beat to mako parent success for 1934 was not good the initial disgrace he had largely fortuitous.

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brought on the regiment.

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