Dayton tribune., May 14, 1925, Image 7

Jardine Gets Tips From Two Shepherd Senators
Carload of “Oyster Shell Grit” Is Mostly Rum
Chy and railroad police mid federal
agenta aelxe boi car from Biloxi, Ml»».,
at Kansu* City, Mo., and discover
■corta of case» of liquor hidden be-
naatti bug« of crushed oyster aliali.
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Tornado Whims
Puzzle to Science
understood. The upper part of the
tornado scents for some reason to
move ahead, breaking off Its lower
portion, and then, ns It speeds on, the
vagaries of tor- whirling wind Und» Its way to tba
Wnxblngton.'
undoes, one variety of which recently ground again.
anutTed out more than MM lives In
the Middle West, have almost cotn-
40-Room Residence
pletely baffied the researches
enee. The suddenness with w hlch
Moved Three Miles
they strike, and the destruc: e force
Dos Angeles, Cal.—Another feat Iti
of their attack, have timde »clentllic house moving was completed recently
study extremely difficult.
by moving a «l-rnoni residence valued
Prof. William J. Humphreys of the
glMl.tSM a distance of three miles
weather bureau describes a tornado as In three nights without Interruption
“a violent rotating storm of small di­ to trafile on one of the city'» moat­
mensions." The chances are, lie says, used boulevards.
that not once In 1.UU0 years would a
The dwelling Is the largest dwelling
tornado hit the same «¡Hit twice.
of Its kind moved from one founda­
Nams Comes From Africa.
tion to another in the United States.
The name tornado originally was
To enable the dwelling to he trans-
«¡qdleJ to a violent thunderstorm on poried quickly and without su«i»enslon
the west coast of Africa. The variety to traffic, the house was sawed Into
of storm now called by that name, three sections, one of which was
however, la (»ecullnr to the Mississippi moved from the oh) foundation each
United State», night between midnight and dawn.
volley region of
and rarely occurs In any other part Sawing the house and Jacking up the
of the world. Doctor Humphrey's rec­ Individual sections required about six
ord» show that It does not occur west
After the three parts were on
of Denver; la found only occasionally the new foundation the house was as-
In southern Canada ; I» rare In th» sembled Into one building again.
eastern part of the United States,
Forty workmen were employed In
the moving the dwelling, which Is of frame
I» not destructive In
Allegheny mountains except In Ala- construction. A large truck, es¡ieclaliy
burnii and Georgia.
The explanation Is that the Rocky
mountains, extending generally north
■nd south, guide the cold air draining
to the south from the Canadian Rocky
region. The drift of winds comes
■cross the warm waters of the Gulf
of Mexico and starts north across the
United States.
The meeting of these cold and warm
currents of air start» up a rotation
between them, Doctor Humphreys ex­
plains. adding that no other part of
the world has that geographic con­ Observatory to Bare Won­
figuration existing In the Rocky-Gulf
ders of Firmament.
area.
100 Seek to Be Wife
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Vagaries Make Research
Work Very Difficult.
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Edwardsville, III.—C. II. Spill-
man. postmaster here, needs help
to handle letters for D. B. Mac-
Cracken of Waldron, Ark., who
advertised that “I desire a nice
Christian woman for a life com-
panion."
MucCracken. who explained
that he owned a 270-acre well-
stocked and Improved farm la
Scott county, said he was
widower ut sixty-eight, “but In
look» I am forty.” and that be
wished to marry a woman who
would live on a farm.
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More than one hundred letters
were received. Among replies
from Chicago ami Dixon. HL.
wus one which read;
"I am fifty-eight years old, feel
sixteen and look like a two-year-
old. 1 try to be a good Chris-
tliui and have lived on a furm
ull my life."
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designed *or transporting large struc­
tures. rolled the sections to the new
foundation constructed for the dwell­
ing.
Conscience Stricken
Clarksburg, W. Va.—City Manager
\l. G. Otis has received a two-dollar
bill and a letter from E. L. Oliver at
Kenmore. Ohio. The letter states that
several years ago the writer was the
cause of breaking of street lamps here
and has recently been conscience
stricken.
Telescope Reveals
Four Billion Stars
Less Than Mila
High.
The passage of thew currents estnb-
Halles violent rotation.« nt cloud levels
and the whirl beuta Itself down to the
bottom, usually from n level of less
than a tulle above the earth, to the
ground.
The tornado only occurs In connec­
tion with a big rain or snow bringing
storm, and Is usually from 1,000 to
1,500 feet wide.
The peculiar phenomenon of the
tornado "skipping." striking n spot and
Jumping over a stretch of country,
leaving It undisturbed. Is not so well
Seattle.—This city sogn Is to have
the largest stellar telescope In the
world and the greatest astronomical
observatory, In the gift of Charles II.
Frye, capitalist. The plant for the
huge mirror, which will be open to the
public during the summer, now Is be-
ing erected.
The task of preparing the ninni
moth speculum, the largest ever cast
In the world. Is being completed by T.
8. M. Sherldnn, Canadian astronomer
and telescope builder, in specially con­
structed shops tn Vancouver. It. C. The
In Railway Brake Shoe Laboratory
great mirror, 120 Inches In diameter.
must be ground down by hand work
until It possesses the correct focal
curvature.
Other Big Ones.
The largest existing telescope today
Is the Instrument at the Mount Wil­
son observatory, mounting a 100-lnch
speculum. The next in size, 73 Inches
across, is at Little Saanich, B. C., Can­
ada.
The Frye observatory Is remarkable
for several features. It Is the first
erected primarily for public education.
The mirror Is the first largo optical
lens ever cast on the North American
continent. The observatory Itself will
contain a collection of astronomical
photograph« gathered from every part
of the world.
There are about 5,000 stars visible
on a clear night to the naked eye. A
OO-Inch reflector makes 219,000.000
stars visible. Tliv Mount Wilson
«pecplum brings Into view 320.000.000.
while the big Frye telescope will, ac­
cording to conservative estimates,
make visible at least 400,000.000 of the
twentieth magnitude or outside the
farthest boundaries of the universe, ns
the best Imagination of man conceives
the universe.
Huge Dome.
A huge dome 100 feet In diameter
and 150 feet In height will house the
heavy machinery used to manipulate
the ponderous reflector and refractors
of the big telescope.
Scientists are awaiting anxiously the
completion of the mirror In the hope
of viewing Mars and several other plan­
ets which will be In favorable oppo­
sitions to the earth this summer and
autumn.
Munich Stenographers
Sell Funeral Orations
For 35 years Investigation» of the properties of brake shoes, looking to
ward the discovery of better metal compounds than now used, have been un­
der way. The University of Illinois ha» been carrying on such investigations
for many years In Its brake-shoe laboratory where there is a machine, shown
In the picture, which measures and records the friction of brake shoes and
enables the Investigators to measure the weight of metal worn away In the
performance of a certain amount of braking work. There are 30,000,000 brake
shoes In service ou American steam roads and 115,000,000 is spent annually
In renewing them.
Munich. — Stenographers out of
Jobs In Munich have found a source
of revenue in the local cemeteries. It
Is their custom to attend all funerals
and take down the words of the offi
elating clergyman. These they tran
scribe neatly on mourning paper wit .
a black border, and then offer their
work to the relatives of the deceased.
In almost every case the relatives buy
not only the first transcript, but often
order a considerable number of car­
bon copies.
Senator Francis E. Warren of Wyoming (left), seen at work with the automatic sheep shearing machine; Sen­
ator Robert N. Stanfield of Oregon (center), shearing the sheep, and Secretary of Agriculture William Jardine, sur­
rounded by some of the members of the debating team of the Oregon Agricultural college at the government experi­
menting station at Beltsville, Md. The two senators, champion sheep men of the United States senate, gave the sec­
retary of agriculture a few tips on the shearing of sheep. Senator Stanfield 1» the "king of the sheep Industry In
the United State», being the largest producer of wool and mutton in this country.
Unknown Area
Will Be Explored
Science
Expects
Much
From Expedition.
, Washington.—Scientific Information
of high value will accrue from the
exploration of the world's biggest un­
known area by the MacMillan Arctic
expedition under the auspices of the
National Geographic society with the
active co-operation of the navy, ac­
cording to a bulletin Issued at the
society'» Washington headquarters.
"Data which will be collected by
members of the expedition and ob­
servations made by the United States
nnvy flyers are of potential value to
navigators, farmers and fishermen."
the bulletin explains.
‘The major geographical fact Is
that the huge unexplored area, a mil­
lion square miles, Iles between two
American flags, that which flies over
Alaska, and that which Peary planted
at the North pole. In this area, ffiore
than three times the size of Texas,
there Is the possibility of a new con­
tinent being discovered, and the prob­
ability of land of some kind.
Why Land Is Expected.
“The existence of this land is pos­
tulated on reports of explorers who
have skirted the edges of the un­
known area, and of observations of
tide» and Ice conditions along this
fringe, which conditions Indicate the
existence of land.
"Should such land exist It will be
of great future economic Importance
In view of the commercial flying that.
In years to come, will be done across
the Arctic regions.
•The combination of aircraft and
radio In Arctic exploration Is a new
feature of exploration, which not only
adds romance and adventure to the
undertaking, but which enhances the
scientific value of the expedition.
“Hitherto our information about the
Far North has been from explorers
who had to penetrate It In winter,
when the Ice was continuous; summer
flying makes possible observations of
entirely different conditions, with 24
hours of daylight to aid the flyers.
“This same daylight, however, as
radio fans will realize. Is a handicap
to broadcasting, because night time is
radio time. The use of the new short
CHECKING 6,000 SKULLS
wave-length apparatus, under these i
conditions. Is an experiment which will
be of value to the new science of
wireless communication.
“Upper air temperatures in the Far
North are almost as little known as '
the million square miles which may
shroud a long-hidden continent Sum­
mer records of these conditions not ,
only will have a value to future fly­
ing but may have a direct bearing on
weather forecasting.
"Forecasting weather consists large­
ly In detecting new disturbances as
they show up on the western and
northwestern borders of the United
States, learning their characteristics
and figuring out the paths they prob­
ably will follow because of prevailing
barometric pressures and temperatures
ahead of them.
Tracking Weather to It» Lair.
“The great majority of what the
weather forecasters call the ‘lows’—
that Is the areas of subnormal baro­
metric pressure—seem to originate
This is a picture of Miss Miriam
over the warm sea south of the Aleu­ Tildesley, at the Royal College of Sur­
tian islands in the winter, and over geons' museum, London. Her occupa­
the interior of Alaska during the sum­ tion Is that of cataloguing 6.000 hu­
mer. But some of the conditions ' man skulls, one of the largest collec­
which cause these ‘lows' to be ‘built , tions In the world.
up' In those places and create ‘highs' j
to the east have their birth farther
north In the polar regions, and a bet­ sure and wind changes there undoubt­
ter know edge of temperatures, pres- edly would facilitate weather forecast­
ing.
"In the search for the beginnings
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not concerned with the entire polar
* Long-Haired Shanghai * regions. It Is most concerned. It hap­
Started “Bob” Craze * pens, with the unexplored territory
which Ues north of Alaska.
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Seattle.—Shanghai, for cen- J
“Temperatures, pressures and wind
j * turies the native habitat of long- * conditions—the vital weather factors
1 * haired women, started the fem- I —are not known in the regions north
* Inine bobbed-hair fashion on its *
J way around the world. Miss $ from Alaska to the pole. Explora­
tion of this area is a preliminary
* Laura A. Holden. Shanghai buy- * to making detailed observations of
* er for a San Francisco store, * these conditions which directly affect
* said upon her arrival here from *
* the Orient on the liner Presi- * farms and orchards of the United
j * dent Grant.
* States.”
Speaking of tlie navy’s part In the
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"Styles In Shanghai are about *
: * two years ahead of Paris in dar- j expedition. Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor,
| * Ing and everything else," said * president of the National Geographic
* Miss Holden. “I have observed J society, said:
“Two of the outstanding men of
* Paris modistes copying Shang- *
♦ hal styles many times."
i their generations in the history of
polar explorations were officers of the
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United States navy—Charles Wilkes,
who discovered the Antarctic conti­
nent on January 19, 1840, and Rob­
ert E. Peary, who attained the North
pole on April 6, 1909.
“It Is a matter of pride to the mem­
bers of the National Geographic so­
ciety that the monuments to Peary
and Wilkes In the Arlington National
cemetery were placed there by their
society.
“With these two names may be
grouped other navy men whose en­
terprise and daring have added to
our knowledge of the world. Among
them are Charles Francis Hall, who
pushed north from Thank God Harbor
to within less than eight degrees of
the North pole in October, 1871;
George W. DeLong. who lost his life
In polar work ; William Francis Lynch,
who in 1848 conducted a valuable offi­
cial survey of the Jordan river and
the Dead sea; Matthew Calbraith
Perry, who so diplomatically opened
Japan to the outside world In 1853,
and Thomas Oliver Selfridge who con­
ducted surveys for a canal across the
Isthmus of Panama in 1869-73.”
Huge Concrete Job Is Completed
Solons Burned Out
Guatemala City.—The legislative as­
sembly has been compelled to suspend
Its sessions until new quarters are
found. The lawmakers were made
homeless by the Are which recently
destroyed Centenary hall The original
The four-year task of lining with concrete the Connaught tunnel of the Guatemalan Declaration of Independ­
Canadian Pacific railroad—longest In America—has Just been completed, with ence was lost In the fire.
half a million bags of cement and untold tons of sand and stone mixed within
The Vernay-Faunthrope expedition
railroad cars In the tunnel and blown Into place behind the wooden forms by
has
obtained specimens of the nearly
compressed air through huge pipes, as shown In photograph. The work was
extinct pink-headed duck.
the greatest Job of Its kind ever undertaken.