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Plan Two Flights Into Stratosphere Army and Geographic Soci ety Will Co-Operate. Washington. ? Two stratosphere as cents to the highest point to which tt Is practicable for a balloon to lift a man, will be made In the United States during the coming summer In the hope of clearing up problems of the upoer air that are still puzzling to science, It was announced by the National Geo graphic society and the United States army air corps, sponsors of the proj ect. The balloon, with a capacity of 8,000,000 cubic feet, will be the largest ever constructed. It Is estimated that It will rise to a height of more than 15 miles above sea level. The first ascent will be made In June by Capt. Albert \V. Stevens, noted aer ial observer and photographer of the army air corps, who conceived the project, and MnJ. William Kepner, bal loon expert of the army air corps. If this flight Is successful, the same bal loonUts will make a second ascent In September, in order to chock observa tions under Rlmilar conditions. Scientists a* Advisors. To advise In regard to the scientific plons tnnd equipment, and to direct studios of the data collected, Dr. Gil bert Grosvenor. president of the Na tional Geographic society, has formed a committee of outstanding American scientists. The huge balloon to bo used In the ascents will .have a gns capacity Ave times that of the bag In which Com mander Settle established his ll^ mile record last November ; and nearly three and a half times that of the Soviet balloon which in September rose more than 12 miles above the earth. The exact point at which the bal loon will take to the nlr has not been x selected, but it will probably be in the northern great plains region. Such a choice. It is pointed out, will give am ple room for drift to the northeast, east, or southeast and a landing in open country, so that the bap can be solvoged. The completed plans fnr the flights are due to the efforts of Captain Ste vens, who hns pothered data during the post 11 months directed toward the use In stratosphere flights of the largest balloon which it Is practicable to construct, and an ascent to the highest point to which It Is believed possible for man to rise In o gas bap, with hope of a safe landing. The mere attainment of altitude, however. Is not a primary object of the ascents. It Is desired to roach the greatest at tainable height above the earth in or der that conditions there can be ob served. Captain Stevens hos penetrated the lower levels of the stratosphere by airplane on numerous occasions and U. S. Whaling Ships Fade From Oceans Washington. ? A once flourishing and picturesque Institution nppenrs doomed to follow the covered wagon Into oblivion. The American whaling fleet, which In the hey-day of Its activ ity In 1858 comprised 2(H), 000 gross tons, has dwindled until today only 14 vessels of 9,307 tons remain. And so is closing an Important and vlvled chapter In the history of the United States merchant marine. Records In the Commerce de partment's bureau of navigation and steamboat Inspection also show that since the time the first Ameri can whalers headed their well pro visioned vessels away from the New England coast late In the Eighteenth century for their search of "swimming treasure," headquar ters for the Meet have moved com pletely across the continent. also has served as observer ou a num ber of army balloon ascensions. Dur ing his high altitude flying he has col lected much scientific data. In a flight over Dayton, Ohio, In October. 1028, he reached an altitude of 39,ir>0 feet and obtained the only complete record of thermometer readings ever madq^ In America, showing on. the same day the "temperature gradient" In the re gion from the earth to the strato sphere. Other such records of tem peratures, from the earth to an alti tude of aproxlmately S0.000 feet. Is one of the objectives of the 10.14 ascents. Such dnta will be extremely valuable In weather studies. Trap Stratosphere Air. Another project of Importance will be the trapping of samples of strat osphere air at several levels. These specimens will be analyzed and stud led later In physical and chemical lab oratories. The preliminary "agenda" for scien tific data to be collected during the ascents, contains 14 other Items vary ing from high-level photography and the ascertainment of the elpctrlcal con dition of the air at various levels, to cosmic ray studies and efTorts to deter mine ozone concentration. The mys terious ozone layer of the upper air which some scientists assert Is all that saves life on the earth from destruc tion by ultra-short light rays. Is thought to lie far above the highest point that can be reached by a manned balloon. It Is hoped, however, that evidences of an increasing ozone con tent of the air can be detected lf> miles up. In order to house the many instru ments and automatic recording de vices that will be taken aloft, the bal loon will have attached to It a spheri cal gondala of light metal 0 feet In diameter. This diameter is 2 feet grenter than that of the gondolas used by Professor Piccard and Commander DEVELOPS NEW RAY Prof. B. O. Lawrence who, with Dr. M. Stanley Livingston, has developed a new ray more penetrating than either X-rays or radium. This ray is made of neutrons, the most disrupjlve sub stances known to science. The ray is a flow of 10.000.000 neutrons a second, coming from a lead window. Although Just a baby In the ray class, and poten tially the most dangerous ever pro duced, It has great possibilities both for experiments and for building up the heavier chemical elements out of the lighter. Settle, and will provide a cubic ca pacity more than twice as great. The instruments, many of them de signed and modified by Captain Ste vens as a result of trials during high altitude (lights, will be largely auto matic. leaving observer and pilot free to take care of the many activities In t lie gondola that will require personal j attention. A number of tiny cameras, using motion-picture film, will auto- J matjcally and tirelessly "read" uials , and clock fares simultaneously at fre- J (juent Intervals. Germany Planning War, France Is Told Paris Newspaper Points Cut Preparations. Paris. ? "Germany toduy possesses the most powerful war equipment ma chine on the enrth." This statement, .printed in the semi official Temps, did not surprise French men. The Temps also declared that Uer mnny could launch over twice as many trained and armed inen as France in battle. Temps served to confirm the belief that, behind n screen of commercial enterprise, the relch has been assem hllng the fastest airplanes, sturdiest artillery and deadliest pas. "Like It or not." one of the leadlnu aviation columns here said, "the (let mans In 1033. Just ns in lO.'i'J and 1 1 v 1918. are ahead In the science of aero dynomlcs. They have borrowed tin best features of all nations." But figures are more convincing than editorial opinion. Temps offers three "Incontrovertible proofs" thai prove, It declares, "intern ified prodnc tlon of materials for an offensive war httB been speeded up In the past few months." These are: One ? The significant rise in stocks on the Berlin exchange of concerns equipped to produce war materials. Two ? The Increase in Imports or raw moterlals subject to use for man ufocturlng war materials as betrayed by German foreign trade statistics. Three ? Sudden expansion of p??rson nel in plants equipped to produce wiii materials Germany actually possesses twent\ aircraft factories against elirlit in CJreot Britain. It Is pointed out. which affirms that within six months the In dm.tr* "jjnld produce more airplanes President Intervened for Him Wlinn Htevo Wftflllakos, the vendor of pennuts and popcorn at n corner of thfe White House ground* for the last 20 years, wan ordered to remove hta stand by the Dtstrlot of Columbia commissioners, ho thought ho wan about to beioittft A member of the army of forgotten men. But President Roosevelt, reading o i his case In the newspapers, Intervened and Steve wns permitted to reAMftt. -f than It (1 i <1 In 1018 ? namely, more than 'J, 500 monthly. As regards aircraft, the Temps says: "Lufthansa has just ordered from Junkers fifty-three motor planes, of a type easily convertible into long-range bombers. "Heinkol has been asked to turn out 100 heavily armed combat planes, to go faster than 300 kilometers an hour, carrying two observers and bombs. "Bayerishche Motoren-werke Is build in s: loo TOO 1). p. motors of a new American type." In the Ithineland, it Is pointed out, lespite the limitations set by the Lo carno pact, air fields have been elab orated near Barmen, In the Wupper; near delsenkirchen, at IMrmasens, at Dlngllnghem, Baden ; at Hastatt on the Baldennu, and at Klntzlg. These 'tew fields, It Is claimed,- nre In direct iolatinn of the Locarno pact. Ccrn Stalk Gas Tested to Light Farm House Ames, Iowa.? The time may not be distant when rural homes will be light ed and heated from the waste products of the farm, early experiments at the field station of the United States Department of Agriculture Indicate. An experimental plant has been ?rected on a farm near the station or production of gas manufactured from corn stalks as the raw materials of fermentation. The goal for which engineers are -striving is construction of a farm plant capable of producing 200 cubic feet of gas suitable for burning as fuel or for lighting purposes daily. Such a plant would utilize from for ty to fifty pounds of shredded corn stalks a day and would be installed at hi approximate cost of $.TOO to $fi00. exclusive of equipment for distribu tion within buildings. "Such plants would be especially lieneflclal in the West, where coal Is "xpenslve and Illuminating gas unob tainable." commented I*. Burke Jacobs. | ?lilef of the station. I "Utilization of certain vegetable I wastes for generation of gas, either on the farm or fr4m a central plant lo cated In a small community which Is not served bv Illuminating gns, would simplify the 'farm waste' problem In so far ns such districts are concerned." Sultan's Stolen Wealth, Gone Years, Is Found Istanbul.- ? Ten tablecloths embroi dered with real pearls, a basin of sil ver and gold, and a Jeweled needle | cnse disappeared many years ngo from Abdul Hamld's treasures. An Informer recently denounced or\e Nourl Bey ns having the precious ob jects. F'ollce found'them and removed the treasures to the old museum. Now Nourl Bey Is sulnpt the museum for restitution on the grounds that he bad possessed the Jewels and gold for more than 20 years. 92-Yr.-01d Woman Known as "Mother of Mayors" Boonevllle, Ind. ? Mrs. Elizabeth llelnzie Neater, who recently celebrat ed her ninetieth birthday, Is known ns the "mother of mayora." Her oldest son, John F. Helnzle, was elected mayor of Boonvllle In 1005. Hor ??c ond son, Fred Helnrle, was named mayor of Tell City In 1000, and In 1029, her third aon, Floyd II. Necier, was elected mayor of Boonvllle. BRISBANE THIS WEEK. Europe Knows Our Dollar Marrying Haphazard One Bafaker, $200,000 $15 a Word, and Cheap We don't yet know In this country that our dollar Is only worth 50 cents, but Europe knows It. The gold franc, worth about 3.80 cents when, the dol lar was a gold dollar. Is worth today 6.27 cents In paper dollars. Something frightened our speculative gentlemen In Wall Street and stocks dropped rather violently. They will go hack again. The cheaper dollar means a better price for the stocks, real estate and everything else with real value. While the dollar changes Its value by flat, the other things do not change their value. This Is a good time to collect right real estate and securities. If you know how to select the right ones. J. H. Blumensohn of Columbia uni versity, sent to Brazil by the Rocke feller foundation, found Interesting In dians called the Kalngang tribe. These Indians solve one of civilization's prob lems by marrying both the daughter and the mother; no mother-in-law dif ficulty there. In former times the Indians prac ticed extensively polygamy and group marriage, several men and several women being married to each other at the same time. There Is no marriage ceremony, and | when the Kalngangs kill each otner In i family feuds, divorce quarrels or for | other numerous reasons, there is no j punishment provided. Also there Is j no mo>al code. The good will be glad to hear that , the tribe Is dying out; not expected to last long. I Edward G. Bremer, young bank pres ident of St. Paul, thirty-seven years | old, Is released by kidnapers. His fa- ; ther paid a ransom of S'JOO.OOO In $R I and $10 bills, which weighed flfty pounds and filled two suit-boxes. Unit ed States detectives are looking for I "ten or twelve kidnapers." Repeal of prohibition has dlsoour- : aged bootleggers, but will probably ? promote kidnnping. Charles Dickens Nwrote a life of Christ In 14,000 wordsVor his children, j They would not sell or allow It to be , published. Now the last is dead and | the brief manuscript sells for $15 a ' word, $210,000, not Including the orig inal Itself In Dickens' handwriting. That manuscript itself will sell for a big price some day. Dickens could not ! have Imagined all this when he was a j young, struggling writer In London. | "Stone walls do not a prison make," you all know t! at, "nor Iron bars a cage," under certain conditions. That youth, beauty and even dia monds do not make happiness you learn from a young woman, a "Follies girl," found dead, sitting In a hotel, registered under a false name. She had nine diamond rings on her fingers, $280 in loose change In her handbag. Her lips were burned with poison, and those burned lips will never tell. Mr. Schwab, of the steel company, used to say when he saw a little dog chasing an express train that he won dered what the dog would do with the train If he caught It. You wonder what Uncle Sam plans to do with all the gold In the world when and If he gels it. He can't hold It In his tyip. The United States Is gathering In formation about silver ? who has It, who Is hoarding It, why It was bought, why It Is hoarded? You remember what happened when you hoarded gold, If you did. Yon had to give It to the government at the old price, and then watched It go up $15 an ounce. Perhaps you will see something like that In Silver. One hundred million ounces of It are said to be held In this country for specu lative purposes. The British post office shows a sur plus. net profit of $r>n,(HX),000 for the year. Thai will Interest Postmaster General Farley, who Is working to show n profit on his Job The Interesting thing Is that the British post office owns and run* the British telegraph system, government owned. and will send a telegraph mes sage anywhere In Great Britain for 12 cents That was the price, at lenst, when this writer was last In England. ff at any time you have violated the prohibition law. stop# worrying. The Supreme court decided that, prohibi tion being dead, nobody ran be tried for violating a law that does not ex ist The successful bootlegger may rest pen ref nil v on his laurels and profits. At McOraw, N. Y , four dogs led by n j police dog amused themselves with a little girl. Joyce Hammond, six years old, hit her repeatedly, mangled one of her arms She Is in the hospital. Jus tice of the Pence A. P. McOraw or dered the dogs held for n while, to make sure that they were not afflicted with rabies and then shot. Civilized beings will scarcely believe It. but from different parts of the country have come earnest appeal*: "Spare th* poor dogs, flow can yoti be so cruel?" etc. (fc, Kin* P?Atur*? Ine. w STTJ Mrv1c? BLOODY RIOTS END DALADIER'S REGIME Doumergue Undertakes the Ta?k of Ruling France. Paris. France. ? Apparently Just In time to prevent an armed uprlslug that would, amount to civil war, Premier Edouard Daladler and his cabinet resigned, nnd President Lo brtin called on the veteran former President, Gaston Doumergue, to form a new government. This action fol- | lowed two days of violent rioting In \ which mobs of war veterans, royal ists, communists and other trouble j makers fought desperately with the ; police and witn troops hurriedly brought to the city. Bloody battles tool; place In and about the Place de In Concorde and the Chamber of Deputies and when quiet was restored t lie boulevards In the heart of the city presented a scene of wreckage anjl desolation. Estimates of the casualties vary widely. The mararctUst paper Action Francalse snld the dead numbered r?0. Probably more thnn a thousand were wounded. Some were shot, ethers cut down with sabers and many were trampled by the horses of the soldiers, i Machine gnus mounted on the steps of the Calais Bourbon, where the deputies meet, nnd at other strategic ' points swept the streets with bullets. The most serious disturbance of ' the second evening occurred when a communist mob fiO.UOO strong Invaded the heart of Paris shortly after dark. It spread terrorism up to a ate hour. Windows were smashed, shops looted, nnd newsstands and benches set nlire. Police charged the Beds with clubs nnd occasionally answered the fire of Insurgents with pistols. Doumergue's emergence from his re- i tirement was at the urgent behest of Lebrun and many other leaders. The j seventy-year old statesman consented , I to take charge of affairs provided both houses of parliament would pledge I him their unqualified support and j President Lebrun would give him a decree dissolving the chamber and or j deling new elections, to be used If he 1 saw fit. These terms were met, and Doumergue proceeded to form a new ! I cabinet of ten leading figures of par liament. There were strong lndi- ! cations that his fegime might develop Into virtual dictatorship. The social- j Ists, t he war veterans and the fas cists were still restless and threaten- ' Ing. and the royalists were talking of a coup d'etat to restore the mon- ; archy and place on the throne the duke de Guise, flfty-nlne-yenr-old pre tender who resides in exile In Brus sels. There were numerous opinions as to the actual cause of the outbreaks here and In other cities. Some said the rioters were furious at the gov ernment over the $-lU.OOO,<HK) Stavisk.v pawnshop scandal, others that the people were generally restive under financial and economic pressure. Not since the bloody revolution of 1870. has Paris seen such disorders as raged for two days. Machine guns ? rattled from the steps of the Cham ber of Deputies. Mounted guards, with drawn sabers, slashed right and left. Guns and swords were Daladler's an swer to "an nrmed attempt against the safety of the state." Thousands of Parisians, fighting nnd shouting, made up the mob. WASHINGTON BRIEFS The somite ratified without debate an extradition treaty with Turkey. Tuxes collected by the government last year amounted to $2, 01)0,047,270, an Increase of more than $070,000,000 over 10.^2. Representative Connolly (Hep., Pa.), introduced a bill to authorize accept ance of $|0,00<),000 worth ..f radium In payment on Belgium's war obliga tions to the United States. Representative Beck (Rep., Pa.), was declared by a house elections com mittee to be entitled to the seat from the Second Pennsylvania district over John J. Shanahnn, his Democratic op ponent in the 19.' {2 elections. Temporary Insurance is now pro tecting *U>. I per cent of all the depos its In all the banks of the country, according to K. (5. Bennett, director | of Federal Deposit Insurance corpor- , atlon. I Leonard Dupee White, University of Chicago professor of political science, has been selected ns the Republican : member of the c\vll service com mis- j slon to succeed Thomas Campbell, re signed. Nnr i Prop* gnnrln Seized New. York ?Several thousand pam j phlets, described ns Nazi propaganda, were seized aboar'I the freighter Kste, which docked here. Outburst Threaten* in Philippine Province Manila, P. I. ? A warning that blood may flow In Pampanpa province, norfh of Manila, In a tight over the machinery for the general election June r> has been brought to Secretary of the In terior Teofllo Slson by a delegation. Bad Firm in Kanma City Kansas City, Kan.- ? Twobulldlngs of the Cnrswell Manufacturing company's plant here were destroyed by fire with an estimated loss of $200,000. CRAWLING SUBMARINE Sea-bed exploration should he sim plified by the use of a new type of submarine, recently tested In New York. This small craft can crawl about the ocenn bed. and has a hatch througn which a diver can leave or enter it. Ferry's Seeds are sold only in freth dated packages. When you buy Fer ry's Seeds you are sure of the finest quality available. Adv. Tiny Radio Set Pino de Corbertaldo, a youth llvlnj at Trevlso, Italy, has a certificate as suring him that his radio set. with which he can pot half-a-dn/.en sta tions. is the smallest In the world. 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