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SECOND SECTION 4 PAGES SECOND SECTION 4 PAGES Medford UNE r Thirty-First Year MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1936 No. 207. IB ATOLL IN PACIFIC L I Christmas Island - Becomes International Prize As Airway Base Claimed By England And America. SAN FRANCISCO (UP) Chrl&tmaa Island Is the next tiny Island most calculated to leap suddenly out of the almost boundless reaches ot the Pacific and assume an International Importance In the public eye. accord ing to Information reaching San Francisco from such faraway sources ; u the Papeete of Tahiti and from In formal conversation In governmental I and naval circles here. Following the colonization of the V Baker, Jarvls and Howland Islands by the United' State as plane bases In a proposed line to New Zealand, Christ mas Island, it is declared, Is the next of the Pacific atolls that is calculated - to become suddenly important. The American Museum of Natural C- History in New York has sent an ex J"pedltlon to the island to make a close investigation so- a reproduction of the tiny bit of land may be placed In Its museum. The results of the ex pedition may focus attention of both the government and the public on ; the Island. - New Zealand Watchful Two New Zealand cruisers nave been reported in shipping circles to be looking over. the island, presum ably from the standpoint of British Interests. For more than a century possession of the Island has been disputed by the United States and Great Britain. The exact International status of the Island remains somewhat complicated- Aa late as November 28, 1910, the British government proclaimed r Its sovereignty, although it Is under stood the atat department never ' , recognized this move. f In the meant'txe the Island Is op erated hy n Fren.iman under lease from the British government, who has had strong support .from various French governments in the past. -v ' The population consists of about 35 Tahlt'ana brought there from Papette by thft-t V DChman to cultivate his "joconut- ttftonsV- .s, Island's History Long Unlike Jarvls, Howland and Baker Islands, which were colonized by the United States. Christmas island has back of It a history of romance and mystery. It was discovered by Cap tain Cook on Christmas Day, 1777. the year following his discovery of the Hawaiian Islands. Hence Its uame. Since then it has been claimed alternately by Britain and the Unit ed States. It lies Just south of the Hawaiian Islands, just north of the equator and about opposite the Pan ama canal. Among Its interesting assets is the "Bay of Wrecks", where the Jetsam of enough wrecks accumu late to furnish the limited population with ail the materials necessary for building. There also Is a gasoline supply left for the late Charles T. P. Ulm. trans-Pacific flier who had hoped to cross the Pacific with Christmas Island as an intermediary stop. Colonized by Priest . But the real romance of Christmas Island began shortly after 1880, when Father Rougier, a French priest, con celved'the idea of planting it entirely in coconut trees at that time when coconut oil had a high value. He leased it for 87 years from the British government. He gave French names to about everything on the island, from Paris for one point to Marshal Foclj. for his schooner. When he died,- the lease passed to his nephew and grandson, Paul Em? manuel Rougier. In the meantime, the price of coconut oil had decreased but Rougier with his 25 Tahltlans still held possession. Now he finds copra .cutting more profitable than growing coconuts. Appeal For Books Gets Good Results Appeal of Medford post of the American fceglon for books to supply the new Bandon library has met with & splendid response, post officials said today. Scores of books of every type and description were received Tuesday night at the Legion stag party and many more have been promised by local citizens, they stated. The drive for reading material to replenish the Bandon library, recent ly destroyed by fire, will end this week, and anyone having contribu tions to offer should leave them with Adjutant Lee Oarlock at the Oregon Motor association office on North Riverside avenue at once, officers ex plained. All types of books are ac ceptable, travel, fiction, history or science, whether new or old, accord ing to word received from the Legion committee in charge of the project. TESTS INDICATE PLANET HISSES CREATE STATIC Heavenly Bodies 'Broadcast To Earth, Editor Says Radio Reception Thought Affected By Sun Spots. ' Phone 542. Well haul away your irfaae.' City Sanitary Service. NEW YORK (UP) Blame the sun, the moon and the stars If radii re ception Isn't what it ought to be and If it occasionally hisses. Dr. Orestes H. Caldwell, who haa been studying such things, reports that the magnetic qualities of heav enly bodies bear directly upon radio performance, intensify and extend re ception in some periods and block and Interfere with It In others. Describing the sun as a "gigantic electro -mag net 860.000 miles in di ameter and 90.000,000 miles from the earth," Dr. Caldwell, editor of a radio magazine a,nd formerly a member of the first federal radio commission, said that sun spots polarized blotches on the sun's surface affect radio reception in direct proportion to their number. Minimum In 1022-23 "In 1022-23 the sun spot cyclo was at Its minimum," he said. "Then with a little set you could hear a 50-watt station across the continent. "From 1925 to 1929, when the num ber of sun spots reached the top of the curve, reception was unusually bad. Later in 1929 when the cycle was at the minimum, reception be came so good that broadcasting sta tions had to shift their frequencies to prevent rsdlo waves from aoing all the way around the world and Interfering with the broadcast.'' 'The moon also affects radio re ception, Dr. Caldwell said. ' You will find your radio works better on moonlight nights. On other nights radio waves strike the Heavlslde Layer, that stratum of the atmo sphere 100 miles up, through which radio waves pass with difficulty, and are reflected back, causing interfer ence. . - - . "When the moon Is overhead, how' ever, being negatively charged It causes 'electronic tides" In the Heavl- sldo Layer permitting the waves to puss through freely." Stars Also Broadcast . . i 4o That-atara.are continuously "broad casting' to the earth also was dis closed by Dr. Caldwell. He said that radio research workers had picked up messages audible as a hissing ound from the direction of Saggltariua. Another type of Interference Is caused. Dr. Caldwell said, by short radio waves which slip through the Heavlslde Layer, strike the moon, a planet or the sun and are reflected back to the earth. Waves which strike the moon come back in a few seconds, he added. Those which penetrate to Mara are reflected back In about four minutes. The time for a round trip Journey to the sun is only eight minutes, three hours to Neptune and five hours to Pluto. The trips to the stars take consid erably longer time and ore no cause for worry, Dr. Caldwell said. A radio wave which set out from earth today to visit Alpha Centaurl would be four years getting back. To Slrius and back would take about 9.000 years and the round trip to Virgo would occupy some 17.000,000 years. MOSCOW. (UP) AU farm horses will lose their tails under instructions of the commissariat of agriculture Is sued to state and collective farms. The order was Issued In a three column announcement In the. agri cultural press which featured a pic ture of a peasant docking hla horse's tall. It read: '"Attention, of collective farmers. Individual peasants and state farm workers I By organized cutting of tails and manes of horses we can sup ply our Industry with very valuable raw material for production of goods of broad consumption. "When the mane and tall ere comb ed during the cleaning of horses much hair remains 'on combs and brushes. Do not throw It away but collect It In one place. i "Deliver all hair collected as a re sult of cleaning and docktng of horses to collecting organizations at fixed prices. . Killed On Highway ST. HELENS. Ore., Nov. 37. (AP) William Buckltn, 73, stepped from one machine into the path of another and wna almost instantly kilted here last night. 4 WINDOW GLASS Wo sell window glass and will replace your broken windows reasonably, Trowbridge Cab Inet Works. . SLEEP LOSS FAILS LOS ANGELES (UP) Loss of mere two or three nights' sleep j shouldn't dim brain power that Is,' If a person can conceutrate. This was the discovery of two Uni versity of Southern California scien tists who kept three students awake for 65 hours In an experiment. At the end of 65 sleepless hours the stu dents did mental work almost as well as at first, except for lapses in their powers to conceutrate. In these in tervals their minds "went blank" and they could not solve even simple arithmetical problems. From 5:30 a. m. Friday until 10:30 p. m. Sunday the students had no sleep. Dr. Nell Warren and Dr. Brant Clark with 12 assistants worked shift, keeping them awake and smoothing out frequent quarrels that flnred es the students grew sleepy and irrit able. Every 10 hours the students were put through a test or solving more than 100 mathematical problems and Identifying more than 300 colors flashed before tholr eyes. Their accuracy changed little de spite loss of sleep. But Increasingly they strtn'k "blank" lapses when they looked at the problem of, say, 7 minus 4. and took some time before answering "three." These lapses oectirred 92 per cent of the time at the start and soared to 33.5 percent at the end of 50 hours without sleep. Then, to the scientists' surprise, at the end of 65 hours without sleep, when the students should have been weariest, their scores snapped back to 17.5 percent. This spurt, psychologists say. prov ed that the students brotns were carrying on in normal fashion, but that, with the promise of sleep only a few hours ahead, the students turned on all their lugging powers of concentration and "sprinted" men tally for the final test. Difficulty in concentrating when a person is tired, scientists sntd, probably is due to fatigue poisons gathering In the blood supplying the brain cells. APPLEGATE MAN HURT WHEN TEAM PLUNGES BIO APPLEGATE, Nov. 27. (Spl Roy Mclntyro of Little Applttiate was removed to a Modford hospital Wednesday, having sustained head and chest injuries In an accident at the Harold Crump farm that morning. Mr. Mclntyro was operating a manure spreader, when his team suddenly plunged, and In attempting to Jump to the ground, he was struck on the head by the spreader tongue. He sustained severe facial wounds, and X-rnys were taken to determine the extent of his injuries. E SEE MIS AS ASSETS; UNION THREAT BEATEN NEW ORLEANS (UP) Bartenders In N'ew York may think barmaids aro a menace, but in New Orleans they are considered an asset by their bosses and their customers. The barteuders' union will not ad mit them, but only about 10 percent of the men bartenders belong to the union in New Orleans. The subject came tip when Louis W. Wulff, president of the Interna tional Barmen's association, became disturbed about the barmaid situa tion in New York. Ho had. heard thai plenty of bars were hiring women be cause they were attractions. Sold Wulff: "Liquor alone causes enough trouble. Why add women? Women barmaids flirt. As a matter of fact, they flirt whether they are barmaids or not. So put a ban on them, wo say. In New Orleans, pretty, brunett Strike lllls Wheat CONDON, Ore., Nov. 27. (AP) Strike conditions on the Pacific coast waterfronts have cut wheat ship ments from Condon by 100 cars, far mers estimated. Merchants, too, have been affected. Many shipments of merchandise havo failed to arrive. 4 CHRYSLER TOPS 'EM ALL. Kennell Ellis Studio nianche Leclero, Managing Owner ANNOUNCES A Grand Holiday Special OSK REflULAR t-l.SO OPAL KNI..IRC1KMKNT WITH IlKAU TIH L FRA.MK $3. Take advantage of this special 1 Make your appointment at once as this offer is tor a limtied time only. No extra char go for groups. Call 329. Kennell Ellis Studio 32 No. Central Lois CaughUn polished her bar and poo-pooed Mr. Wulff. She also scout, ed the Idea that behind the bar Is no place for women. "In the places I've tended bar I've never had any trouble,' said Lois. "The boys hung around and talked, Just like they would to a man. They bought plenty drinks, too. If any body got rough, the man in the plac took core of them." The union hero tried to get the girls barred from the bars, but the state legislature wouldn't pass the bill. CITY CLEANING & DYEING CO. 624 No. Riverside PHONE 474 MB WUiHW'.l!l"iy'. 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