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NANCY

NANCY IS FALLIN' FOR OXIE JUST 'CAUSE HE'S STRONG!

I'D LIKE TO KNOW WHAT EXERCISE HE USES... MAYBE I COULD GET STRONG

TOO!

Tuesday,

OH, NANCY" YOUR AUNT FRITZ). IS

CALLING

YOU!

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

OH, OXIE-- WILL YOU HOLD THIS

FOR ME,

PLEASE?

August 12, 1941.

By Ernie Bushmiller

Ten Long Solar Periods Said Affecting Weather Forecasts

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 (UP)-There are teń long periods in the radiation of the sun. Each of these has directly observable effects on the temperature and rainfall of the carth, but this varies with place and season and there is some as yet unknown factor which complicates long range weather forecasting.

These conclusions from the work of the Astrophysient ob- servatory of the Smithsonian Institution were announced by Secretary Charles G. Abbot. They were thought to bring a step nearer the day, when useful weather forecasts may be made for several years ahead based upon solar observations.

"The sun's radiation also • Dr Abbot has analysed temperu- varies irregularly from day to ture and precipitations records for day. These variations attend Copenhagen, Vienna, and New Haven the sun's 27-day rotation, for the for the pust 140 years and found that sun's surface has hot spots as well as cold spots upon it," a Smithsonian bulletin said.

"Columns of finely-divided matter shot from sun-spot regions appear to bombard the earth and veil the sun slightly when such sun-spots are -exnetly central. Thus both increases

and decreases of the

sun's

's radiation affect us as the sun rotates.

"An increase in the output of the sun, especially

of short duration, it does not necessarily mean an increase in the temperature of the earth as a whole. Local conditions, auch cloudiness and location with respect to prevalling winds, have profound effects,"

"Changes Of Phare"

In the past De`Abbot has been puzzled by apparent "changes of phase" In the weather effects of the long periods in

Kolar

variation. Almost precisely opposite weather results would kometinies ensuc ***work has

This

solar periodjelties continued with unaltered phase throughout period. They were sufficient to se- court for all departures from normal temperatures.

Long-Term Forecasts

Own Chiefs

Sought By R.A.A.F.

Although there are probably thousands of R.A.A.F. men in Britain, the highest rank, apart Dr Abbot gives examples of

from liaison officers, is only a fairly successful_weather_forecasts five years in advance. These are Squadron-Leader-equivalent to made by finding the average effect an-army, major. of each of the ten long solar]

All ranks of the Rt.A.A.F. nre dis- periods on weather for 50 years back. These separate

the polley of not effects are satisfied with then combined for the Bve years attribute it to undue domination by sending senior officers abroad, and

the R.A.F. In Scheme.

the Empire

Senior ofleers are resentful br

to come.

changes earth because of the 27 of the sun

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JUNE-25

Sydney Hospitals Filled With Wartime Babies

New mothers in some of Sydney's big maternity hospitals are sleeping on crowded verandahs, with only canvas blinds protecting them from wintry winds. Cop- ing with the crop of war-time babies is becoming a scri- ous problem, says the "Sydney Sunday Sun."

At St Margaret's Hospital for Wo- men, in Sydney, beds have been crowded into the wards until there are barely 18 inches between them and there

is scarcely a foot verandah space unoccupied.

of

In the year before the war, G80 bables were born in this hospital. Last year, the total was 1,148, and this year it promises to rench the 1,500 mark.

handled in exactly the same space

Yel this great increase has all been and, in sulle of such overcrowding, there have been no obstetrical deaths

In the past 12 months,

U.B.

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MESSIREADING QIPRADORES

SOLE AGENTS:

A.R.P.: One W. R. LOXLEY & CO., (China) LTD.

Minister Is

Urged

Concentration of all civil de- fence functions in a single. Ministry; and

Cutting-down of full-time paid workers.

These are two recommenda-

"Ever since the war began there has been an increase in the figures of Crown-street bere," the matron Women's Hospital reported.

"Our average has risen fron 200 to 300 births a month, and our wards Lions by M.P's forming the are

crowded to capacity, while Select Committee on National stretchers are Alr

In almost constant Expenditure. use.

Considerable success, he believes might he nelieved in detailed tem posture and rainfall predictions for two weeks in advance, based on the

in radiation renching the denied the experience they

gain abroad. rotation GXIS. Its on

But this would require a sumelent num of co-operating solar stations to secure highly solar radiation measures every

cause they believe they are being could

The lower ranks belleve that, in contributing more than 50,000 men for air crews, Australia should have accurate more independent leadership.

They point to the early dimculties day

A squadron operating in Britain at

recon-

in the year. With the three stations in gaining R.A.F. recognition of the now available in New Mexico, Call-Australians' right to wear their own from the same solar phenomenon.fornis, and Chile, cloudiness prevents distinctive uniforms.

convinced hi the observation of the sun on many The R.A.F. Initially opposed the that this is explainable. It

days

of the усаг.

formation of all-Australian squadron. on the season of the year. These day-by-day solar changes, For example, he says, take an a-and-

Dr Abbot demonstrates, are mujar

Australian Squadrons one-eighth month period-one which factors in controlling weather for ho actually has found in the solar short periods

Every time it recurs in variations. the same season it will have the same effects at a given station, so fur as itself is concerned. Other simul- taneously operating solar variations may, of course, partially modify the effects.

The solar periods listed by Dr Abbot

range from eight and one- eighth to 273 months. The latter, years, appears to be the major period in which all the others repent themselves and the most successful long range forecasts to date have been based upon it. They have been reasonably accurate for two or three years in advance.

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about 23

A highly active region on the sun present becomes an R.A.A.F. qua- may actually reduce the solar radia-dran when 75 per cent, of the per- tion received on the earth, Dr Abbotsonnel is Australian. points out, bet

One R.A.A.F. Sunderland because “I conceive there is an emanation from the

naissance squadron has been operat- in in Britain since shortly after the expecially active in sunspot regions. This emanation produces either outbreak of War. One Spitfire scattering, or absorption, or both for Squadron was formed recently, two solur rays. Its columus are shot more are being formed, and many outwards from the sun for hundreds R.A.A.F. bomber squadrons will be of millions of miles, and take roughly formed in the next few weeks. conical shapes, with vertices at the It will be anomalous if the Mur's surfaces. As the sun rotates, R.A.A.F. continues to have squadrons these columns sweep through space assuming a major role in the Euro- and may even reach the earth. Then pean war with no officer higher than the solar constant jy diminished by Squadron-Leader, to take part in several percent.

I planning and directing offensive.

KEEP THE BOMBER FUND SOARING

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The number of premature births, seemingly due to war-time worries, particularly on the part of women with menfolk overseas, has increased also," she added, "and we often have as many as 10 tiny mites, weighing from 2lb. 8oz. to 4 lb., in the pre- mature ward,"

Birthrate Up

At the Royal Hospital for Women at Paddington, beds are overflowing on to verandahs, and the birthrate!" is going up steadily.

Its 14th report speaks of serious consequences of the division of responsibility" be- tween the Ministry of Home Security and the Ministry of

lenith,

It says the major defect has been the failure to see the problems of civil defence as a whole,

Other Suggestions

As an example, first aid partic are administered by the Ministry of ani- For the past three months it has Home Security and A.R.P. been well above the average, con-bulances and first aid posts by the frined the medical superintendent. Ministry of Health, "and 171 births in 17 days recently constitutes just about a record.

"One day during the past week found us wealthier by 15 bables, The number of premature births, too, has been higher,"

"We are accommodating on aver age of 45 patients in a maternity block bullt to accommodate 29," was the comment of the secretary of the Royal North Shore Hospital, Mr Ward.

Beginning Of Reuter's

Founder's Life Filmed

However much practical co-opera- tion there may have been between the Departments, it can only have been at the cost of an Iminense amount of time and

energy.

Other suggestions are:- Retfuitment of whole-time elvil defence personnel should only be resorted to when it has been found to obtain impossible

part-time workers either by voluntary recruit- ment or by compulsory enrolment under the powers conferred by the Defence Regulation 20A.

The Air Raid Warden service. should substantially revert to its original part-time basis. and pala elements should as far as possible be eliminated.

First-aid parties should be gen- -erally-reduced in strength.

Paid Personnel

It is pointed out that Reuter's is to-day a byword wher- cab,000,000 spent by the Exchequer of about ever there are newspapers, but few civil defence in the year ended would conceive of the dificulties March 3139,750,000 represented besetting the efforts of the founder the pay of 250.000 whole-time paid of this great international news-workers. Kathering organisation in making the

The nineteenth century world give sys ceptance to his ideas.

number of pald personnel,"

the report, "is therefore of

great importance from the financial In the film, "This Man Reuter," point of view, and the sub-committee previewed at the Queen's Theatre of the Select Committee feel it right yesterday, the

the early struggles of to add that economy of personnel is Julius Reuter well depicted. not merely desirable on ficanclat How he rose from public ridicule to grounds, but at the present has be- estabilst successful pigeon post: come urgent from the point of view how this work was destroyed in a of manpower."

day

ure

by the growth of the telegraph; how this setback was overcome by. the brainwave that come to him of relaying news over the wires for the use of subscribing newspapers, and how news of Abraham Lincuin's assassination obtained, hours ahead of competitors caused a stock mar ket pante, was generally

discredited!

Germans Starve

The Poles

450 Die Epery Day

and led to questions in Parliament, and how subsequent events proved

LONDON, June 7.-The German Reuter's integrity-all this is woven to reliable reports, are deliberately Administration In Poland, according Into an absorbing story that unfolds starving out the Palish population, like a romance..

a

and even, advertise I

Edward G. Robinson, whom War- A revent issue of the "Ostdeuts- ner Brothers are betting on to be-ther Beobachter" said that in 1940 come Paul Muni's successor as products exported from Central Po- character actor--now, that Muni has and to the Relch included 0,500 tons joined another studio-proves equal of potatoes, 2,000 bulls, 94,000 pigs, to the task: In some ways, he even 10,500 sheep reared for wool, 100,- excels his Ane performance GS

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