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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1930-09-18, Page 7• • M„ 1• 10. Midget Golf Popular in London._ Course Makers . ork Overti ie London„—"*idget golf, which Las been, ajtte rage in the United States foxy • -tine, quickly conquered L' on .dote -ei •"1; a. inauguration here' last weep.. r.golfers played on the m'tn- iatu,e`coti •se• opened by the Kit -Kat Club and another "widely advertised course ' attracted a record number of Londoners, all eager to try the new game ,for themselves. Designers and. nirikers of- baby golf ' courses ,are working day and, night because- the promoters .'are :'eager to take advantage of the public's present interest. The fact that it is an endottg� as, Wweh es an 'outdoor game is regaritj? ed as a. considerable advantage and ,it` is belied that ,the rapidly multiply- ing courses should draw some of the large 'crowds that thronged the ice' skating rinks which were so' popular last Winter..• . The green fee. for. an, eighteen -hole. round with the use of a putter and ball varies from the equivalent: of 25 to 50`cents. • Doctors Declare Turk's .OnI 1�0 J afiicial . F.ecot'ds •' Show 111..Years7AS • Extreme. Case of Longevity=.Turk's ;. ..156 -Years Disputed. . •Is'kayo 'Agha really„156 years:old. as` ,.the daft .paper's tell ns?' lie .will have a hard time proving, it. thinks; Science' News -Letter, a Science Service publi- cation (Washington)..Says this ,paper:', ' "The, old Turk, Zero. Agha, with his, birth. certificate showing :156 years., of . age who is now being 'proclaimed to credulous• New York as the oldest hu- • roan. in the world,' will have a hard ' time convincing scientific skeptics 'thathe:bas lived ,se mau}s years. • "Old he is; without a doubt, but 'those who have .looked into ''such claims in the past are laying their scientific•• wagers that he, is' not much mare than a hundred or so..~ • "In fact; the most extreme case of, •longevtty.that. medical records. show fully authenticated .was not quite 111 ' years. That recoil' was 'substantiated by the English investigator, Dr.. T. E. Young,, who in the earl's' part of this • •.t entury,'considered close to 'a. million :'caseis, of supposed centenarians •and • found only thirty•persons 'who from other outside evidence could be shown ,to have' lived a. hundred' years or 'more. Of the thirty, . 21 were •women : and 9 were men:: i •-''IGfi i ir'al ata laticta'tis- hillil-"to' their Idea' that extreme old age is ,a rare phenonieno.n a'Ithough. In the million otore deaths' annually Witte United States at, least .several hundred death certificate, show ages of over a hun- dred and , oecasiouit,ppd.' ones will show such startli•hg records "as 120 years.. ' '•W.heii, such cases are' looked. into it is afteu . tound.,that mistaken .idett- ty conifers, upon :the supposed' , cen- • tenarian" his .remarkable ,record..? Re- ' peatedly instances like this are 'un- covered:- .Toli.it'.Jones. was born and his baptism. duty recorded, Hut• he.died at the age of fifteen years and th•rotigh ' an oversight .his. death was .not regis- tered, .In the„,same year •that he died another male child, Was' born to• the sante parents and named John Jones;. perhaps commemoration 'of his de- ceased brother. The'. second John Jones .was never baptized. When he reaches the age of 85 or 90 his appear- ance ot extreme 'senility attracts at- • tentton and: the baptismal records ap- Tropics Again }Hear .Roar of Hurricane • The Tyhoon&s Brother• Is An Inevit- able Visitor in Southern' Regions., Ottce more ..the ;terror of,. the hurri- cane that sleeps in`. the doldrunts`of; the.South Atlantic'has been roused to, ;sweep. over the; islands .„that it period- ically . visits'. The great sto m'"that struck Sn Domingo last week and caused heavy loss of .life had -entered de Caribbean Sea earlier in the Weel4 passing north of Martiniquer.touching Dominica'and, moving in a northwest- erly direction. along ,a path that hur- ricanes have traversed many • times before. September.is, the great month for the hurricanes that. time and again have :cost hundreds 'of lives and mil- lions;of' dollars in property losses. The season begins toward the end of Jgly,, and usually ends in ,October,' although' there' are November hurricanes. As to the path they take, thesebrothers of the .typhoon are capricious. Some- times they spend' their full force harmlessly at sea, and only' scientific observers, in their recording iaborator- ies .and, captains' of".stray ships whe observe the portmnts afar know of their existence. •At•bther times they run the full 'course ..,pf. those Caribbean islands that atretch-.-like•-a•.by-path...of. stepping stones from South. America to the North American coast. LONG PATH OF DESTRUCTION • A•hurricane moves along• its' course like ',a ; gigantic tumbleweed ` 'rolling of, ' t in a Whirl' `aerosy a, n•airie i 1 Wind with: a useful 'velocity of from 80 to 100 miles an hour, though higher velocities have been recorded.. The Whole storm moves forward at a rate of from 10 to 15 miles an hour. Within the'. centre there is a partial vacuum. This. is 'usually about twenty .miles wide.' The •storm area rolling around, it is often 300 or 400 miles•wide, cut- ting a .swath with, its furious .poiver. of wind and rain. through the country it traverses • 1i a irw..�*,w-ae ex New Devic 0: ears Light'; o O •... a �:4�0 �: Overcome g'` Dai gor Chteagr1U.-=A new aid for Jtiio. planepilots seeking to land on $Xt bound airport, a device that light, was' revealed recently. li is the invention of Earl C, Han- son, Chicago scientist, who disclosed the development to a group of aero- nautic experts attending . the national air races, ineludi'ng Major James Dd'.o- little,'noted for has blind -landing -won Test year for the Guggenheim Hanson utilizes invisible piagiaette. waves emanating front' a bank o? neon .ttrbes,'intercepting them with.a device' in the cockpit that causes a steady hum in ' earphones elapped to the pilot's ears and activates' an electrical. altimeter' that shows the number of feet the,plane is above the ground. ipurities Give Glow. to Radium Radiothorium and, Mesothorium Com phjidds Used to Produce LOminous Pa int. Only..impure-radium isluminous,. according fi i a report made .by Paul;M: • Tyler; chief •engi.neer of the rare met- als' and iign-metals .division .''of the Bureau of Mines,'Department of.Com- ttterece:' The fact •that a 'faint glow, .often' cones' •from `tubes , of , radium salts IS explained by, the fact that; the suits, contain impurities, Mr. Tyler said. • "Radium alone is. not . luminous," -Mr, Tyler* :statement reads. . "The 'faint gloW'thatsometimes is exhibited. by tubes . of radium salts is . tiwing' to. impurities. By mii.ing radioactiye material with. .phosphorescent sub- stances,notably, with zinc sulphide,' a paint that will glow in the dark may be produced. ' ' ,. , "A•ccording to one authority, it waa. shoent'aker of. Bologna who noted more than 300 years ago;• that'iieavy spar heated,, in• charcoal .possessed the property of glowing' in. the .dark after it had been exposed •to•light: Other phosphorescent powder's, mostly blends of 'zinc sulphide and alkali ,sulphide, 'were discovered 'subsequently, and were used for producing. temporary stage"etiects, for example, long before the discovery of radii.m made it pos- Interesting photograph showing an officer tent -pegging at mounted:pet a sible to maintain the.' phosphorescent tournament and horse show, held,recently .at Cordon Fielcl:9, llfordi England'.- glove for• an indefinite period." ' •• 1►Ir.• Tyler said that the ingredients bl ow them'selve5•- ut u�iclel -an '�caus�^ •-L • NSD - N•ER•5--W-f-TN•E•SS• •-`A -•-� - o q y d - Q O ' "and formular`ior; prdduciiig;"I'uttin+iiis little or no .damage.. '. $5,000,000, BLAZE' paints, change from time to time. In, ,,he:United.States, he said; paint. used., 2,000 Fiee Froin Tenement •Hotnes in on Watch :dials had .consist?d mainly Wapping Di triol. ? of crystalline zine sulphide,nixed with 5 P m vamps • London:-Two'thousand persons 'fled proportions of radium, iiieSo:, ance that the stormis plotted almost from' tenement homes before •fla ` therium and radiothorium to obtain as .'soon as it makes its appearance. a of luminosity. At which broke out in Wapping. London she. greatest d ,gree ; When" a Hurricane 'develops the. first.zinc sulphide was made luminous Caribbean the news is solo' td. broad- East End district, recently:a. P P y ;by • radium, 'alone;" but later eheaper Although the weather man cannot control the . hurricane, he has;. 'with :the 'aid of radio, so perfected his sys-• tem of reporting any tropical disturb- cast,ta vessels at sea, and the• path is traced day by day. ' Due warning 15 given`'. to all/ports likely to be •involved. SAN nnMIN.nn RAZED BY FIERCE HURRICANE Santo Domingo; Doniinicari Repub.. lic-The city of Santo Domingo; most ancient setlementof the white man in How does •_a hurricane 'originate? .'the new• world, was almost totally The absolute answer • to, that question destroyed Ly a hurricane gist swept .cannot be stated.. But most scientists over the eastern'enc: of the islaid of believe ,that in some, small sea area Haiti. , • below. the paths of the trade winds . The l:u ricane struck Santo Dom - the equatorial heat causes a central .Ingo at ±' Sept.' 6, and blew for mass of air to rise, starting a vertical four hours. Houses in the aristocratic parents= show th t he•. is . a ,hundred circulation. Eve-itually'the rising air quarter . were razed to 'their -founds - or over. The ager gentleman basks in .reaches a' lerei of sufficient 'cold to tions. ••Dwellings of the poor dtsan- ' his seenringlj •well authenticated :re- change its rater • vapor to drops of :peered on. the wings•. of a, wind, esti- cord of extreme age. water. • This produces what is called matedt be'blovving around 150 miles •' America has "•lead its claimants to heat of condensation. • -• • an hour. age eecords..L'ncle John Shell, of.l en; If the riving 'air, mass •is 'small; a • Scenes, whose horror exceeded any- lucky, who, was exhibited as. -the old thunder?torm is 'formed, but if the' thing witnessed here in ten years, tol- est living human being' with a claimed development is of sufficient magnitude'' lowed its•passage: President Rafael age! of• 131 years, Was i onoun.ced. aV hurricane may be en' its •way to crea- Trujillo took personal charge of the ter a careful love=tigatfan, of,his' rase tion- The heat liberated establishes• to be 'about one hundred years old,, relatively high temperatures, in' the. • possibly a year• younger or older:: rrising mass, accel'eratins the circule- Despite the fact that authenticated l tion' and the rate of•condensation. This ,cases (Jr' human lonfii'vity 10 over a! rireurrinnprocess is probably the man - hundred' years 'are few. man is :yearly! nor int 4f•hi'ch the hurricane, revolving the longest ,lived of all mammals. The : in a counter -clock -wise direction ,as it common idea that whales and ole- travels: maintains Itself: phaiats attain' many 'more r?at c Allan i The devastatioa that the hurrican•• ratan is not credited :in'• scientific leaves in its wake is a:phenomenon circles. But some .species of fish may ..knows to all• who .have lived in its re- . live to over--2oti years aeeording 10 the .•*,iOn. Last September a hurricane best evidence and reptiles..are report- i visited Nassau in the: Bahamas that ed to,jtare• lived 175 yliar.. Birds may ;.damage(- pr:wtualiy every building on have a life span of a few year.: longer ti•'.''. i..h.nd. Many lives were lost. 1'or• •'t:hati titan in smite in' .'. •.,-,:." • ' days the city was flooded and in.darx-f WHEN: MEDICOS MEET • One of the • nioct • Bloods ar"aitiitt- nests- Telephones were out of commis- sion.'ai i it was some tit}te,.before•corn? rnunication. could be established with tints in: the world --the British .MMetir- t1.e outide'World even•by radio- • The • cal Association—has just recently sea wall wits ht'ket in several places` finished its annual meeting. .But not be the 'force of the wind -driven sea. • anywhere in Great Britain—this—Year, Many te. ,.•-'l; inch wed in the. harboa_t the ;'Doctors' Parliament," as the f ve- Were wrecked, Boats were ,.swept ap ..day , meeting of the'A'socitrtion is out of the Water and earried'across sonctinies called. is being held in roads to .loot) near the steps, 'of resi-" 'Canada. • This isn't the first time that, the B ►1.A.. has met in the leo ninion. though it has 'net 'gone there alone .through the. Cailbbean. The disaster 1906. Snmtt of the greatest docttiis of 1926 is still vivid in Many ntemor-' in the Empire attende=d the meetintr. ics. It teas first • noticed. on Sept. 14. Te the. man in the street, ',the mer`- The next morning' it' was: north (it1 Ings' of the B.M.A. 'are ainays vety Porto. Rico. and on the, afternoon of'• 'interesting.: htcau.e: the dissuasions the. I6ith. it ra'se:i over lonely Tiirk's cover a wide range of objects• maxi; Island. Twenty-four• hours later the• of them of a. kind ' that aitpcals to storm 'had crossed' the Bahamas. ani everybody ° ' .'n the morning Of Sept. 18 it was bat.-." The human 'star; of the Lathe rima tering the Florida towns at the end' o; Itiso ilterests the s:• -o' i:-1 nubile. 1.:i•4 the p'ninsu.a. By the afternoon of r , o „rear: for itt,t.nice. an, e•nterprisint: the m'"t dal- the hurricane had cros,e.i 1 journalist tlikroverrd.ihat .t he doctors. the northern bieht of tireGalf of who knew all about. or: benefits' of it ico and was .approaching Penrac 'ia.. • light llit+t,:Wert: tonsitni"ing'Iaree •In.+rt f where it renes ed.its havoc. - liior el -• heefsfit:..'_AN. _INEVITABLE. VISITOR' •": vied" .eat titles.—:louvers. • I The hurricane tis *Part of life in dences. • . ,Florida • • has many times felt, the force of the •hurricanes that sweep relief work The entire .army was called , ut It is believed that 900' persons were killed`or injured. Throe . nun re: firemen used.: •ten miles of hose in fighting the fire... It was estimated that the blaze which-tparted in a spice warehouse, did damage ot about £1,000,000 (about• $5,boo,000 ). SPANIARDS FIND JOY o IN SILENT FILM Madrid. -,Old silent films, made and shown in the United States 10 years ago, and in some cases more, are hay idg. quite a'run in Spain this summer. : The programs of most of the movie theatres here ',lust now are made up of reels : that Hollywood ground out long before the talkie era. This is to fill he gap until a sufficient supply of Spanish-language talkies can be 'pro- duced, Whether in the United States or in Spain itself; to give a.steady run of ' talkie programs to the Spanish theatres equipped for them. There are 7414800 agricultural work- ers in Great Britain•; this Is 28.500, or nearly four per cent., less than last year. Aviatrix Honored in Wales Methods were found by using meso- thorium' and radiothorium.. :As reported by Dr. Hartlatrd, the paint used by girls in a .New Jersey dactory contained chiefly zinc sulphide, rendered- luminous say activationwith about 20 to' 30 per' cent: radium and from 76 to 80 per cent mesothorium containing radiothorium. He quotes .other authorities' td .the effect that these paints may contain all the way froni 7 to 3 and even 4 milligrams of radium element to. 200°grams of zine sulphide.. Impurities may lie added to the zinc sulphide as follows: Cadmium,, .05 per cent.; copper, .001 per cent.; manganese..0002 per cent." • Mr. Tyler describes the British prac: tice of using luminous paints, saying that they are of great•military'signifi- cance. In ;England luminous paints are used for the•illumiration of watch dials, gun sights and compass cards and any other furnis winch wo'uTdnot betray th.e • presence of the military to •the enerrty. During the • World War the British �verntnent •bou ht eighteen World's Airmen. Begin Congress. Lighting of. Routes; As Aid to Night Flying and Insurance of Fares on Program, - ' • The, Hague.—Since 1918, when corn -i. • ,petition I etween nations 'in aviation turned' to the. scientific and'commer clad.' side, four great international con -greases :•have taken'place=in .Paris; London, Br.'iisselS and Roti�ee. • A. fifth' being organized at The 'Hague. The nieetitfgs,, :except for the first-,• which: is .being held in th3 Arts and Sciences Building, which accommodates ''3,006, persons, 'are being• held ini the Binns en hof, famous in.. recent years for they. Reparations'and Peau (;onferenees. • Some -idea of • the magnitude of the, work may be gained' from the fact' that;, 500 experts in various branches ofi' aviation, 'traffic,. science and technics.) ,legal, matters, ttied'ibal questions and) tourism, have inscribed tbeir names as members....Twenty-one ".Countries are). represented. • TO DISCUSS NIGHT TRAVEL A number of •papers of''great gen- eral interest in Matters will be entered' and read. • which directly concern the,' airplane passenger.: On ,of'.these is that of the lighting of air routes for' night' travel. . On this subject mem- ; hers of three' different nationalities'. are presenting papers:. P. ven•Braain' van 'loten, 'a Dutch nigmber, ;deals with the' sub eet from the , scientific.— point , point of view; W. 11. Hampton and C E' "War'd; of #lt'e—Brirish° .4ir 15e - ',- pat -talent, discuss "tile requf'rements for aerodrome and air. route lighting at the rresent time,"'and two. Germans' F. Born 'and H. Strahler, discuss the e"ffect'of large neon.tubes by which the loss of power resulting from filtration' • Of red lights is avoided. •• To the business man ,who either travels by air or uses theairpldne for consigninggthe'''a. Paper by Herr goods, PP Wrongsky;''director ofi the''Lufthan�a . undertaking.en "Co-operation between the airplare.and other means of trans- port"' will :be of exceptio'hal interest.• OBLIGATORY .INSURANCE • ' URGED. 8 g grams of 'radium: for war purposes. •HIDDEN -CITY FOUND• • BY MEXICAN SCOU i $, -t.: Mexico City,—The U.S. Departmen rneed for specialists in these matters is of .Education announc rd recently that ueneraliy admitted., 'and two Dutch Boy; Scouts had discovered a new arch- ii4etor toundiy•asse:rt'that "the meth-' iteoiogical zine in the wilds ,of .the cal specialist iii aeronautic°complaints 1 State.of 'Guerrero: Among the figures. • must hin,elf be' a •"iloi." Beticeen ' i ; discovered is a' large .stone : sphinx • thirty and forty, papers on medical bearing a marked resemblanr' to that in Egypt. IXFLU ENC'E•OF• RADIO STUDIED' s titles ts,,h . e been , • • e,5 The papers by the F an, a .' A. Gtandjean. pn "Uniform rules fp�tr. maks Of identification on mititai'�y. 'airplanes." and, that by Andre Kaftai on "Obligators insurance of passen- gers in aerial transport." will have a wide and general appeal to public •terest. Curiously, th.e, subject of aerial,four- ism has. found little 'favor, and only. three .papers have been . submitted. These,.,howevef..cover the subject very thoroughly. one dealing with formali- ties and facilities, another with recur= in aviation. while the third deals indirectly with_.this suhjecElay discuss= ing- that of instruction . and .examina. tion of apprentice: pilots of airplanes . engaged in tourism. Equally important' to the passenger is the• section given over to 'medical matters. for not 'only is air -sickness in all its aspects being' discussed. but the health. conditions of the pilot are re.zet ing considerable attention. The • + the )Vest Indies The natives look for 8 Will On Chair Leg• t it as practically an inevitable •occur-. One of the.stran.gcst tt;iII;'oil record . ienco .during the hurricane Months. tail) ti Don be filed for probate in Paris. i And, .more •often • than not,. they 'are It is that of M: Auguste ltasilnier. , hid.• ; correct in' thee: annual exp'ectatio•. • had it enrrav<ditn a log of 11no ot iii •1`o .:Ihave. their noel es blown do • d ining•rn' Ut-chair$. theit'•crnp's ruined, and tttuch'of•the'r personal • property destroyed i a pa doss -- "You're ai•ked.!'" Clerk -•- of .the implacable scheme of things. I ' "Rot l'%e dobe absnititely nothing. • Moss•—"Thai's why." a. sante •years, bowever,,there are no vier lent 'hu.rricanez•=-inerei} gales that _rheasands. trutched unveiling ei mon i.: tt ,' -'. ,aviatrix of Boston. at Burry Pori Wales l;n l.e,i.i. .ot crossing the Atlantic with Bronner.Stnti iii. 192,x: 1 Fort. Sir Arthur )Written Brown, co-pilot wiih'late Sir entered. �I • Governntent archae•tlogists:.axe leav- • i•ng forthwith to sti,dy`the zone:•+thick, according to the discoverers' pre:itnn- ary report=. probably includes an er,- tire'burieil city. A number o. •hilts• in the zone are believed to cover py ra- mids: ()n the summit of one there s W:relt+� Tt.e�±raph Company. Dr: W. a huge g.obuiar st•w..e e.,vere'i with a 1 11�;Ic+i anti Herr h . E1 ,nor (Ger- kind of hieroglyphics. irantl, �..•; A. t'el int. F. <farino sin:l The department' cnmtnzin quo sal ; L t�ut'rra t Iia:y�tt Cbpta•n Vii. •Mac -ii that there was no known recnrii of mxr. the E illi Ii pint, Bill talk the tone. which it Ras believed 'irt�;i ai''i'liut ' Prvi'" ri i, of air gran -sort froth , never Bern seen befJ•re by a white •rp IpS1. t+s rat, f snow'," . urn, ,list firer r itr•'ii h' pi.,�tt- i' .I'"=°.,ics t" tiir.,r its and tho,e wht graph, of the sph,r.' and !,-her re'i tri t .leas *i.er tt- ,n.tn advance; the tett' them as'pi-, tf, o•f "he:r fr& il, i :u•la�'.,n:any• distin- . :"U Wh�•i avoir From l.' -viand Sit • Se -:fm P.ra! •ker i, can;ir.g. Lady t `"Th' 1.1-t. is i' ]1N• k.'T''ff i,hes Bair"'. ?Ii "r ape t•t Fne'ani" fame, f�7r1 S:tiitlt•;irg i,is 'l,t' ; r•' er.1. The influence of 'radio on aviation is' not :,anroii. and beside the references to it, in the report Of the. American. iiaie•,n enir.n:.ttee there are 'c"intribu• tions to the i, cussien by the' Marconi • Large Trees Successfully Moved . With the kelp of &Trucks 'I'- t r _ •4 n6.1 .nL,;,r a nits:cry n •i;.i...,. •,t. ..tv,.ti r:tit•..:(as a•ht..1 ". . ' •if is ?i - it r rtn•iit- 'tt .•r.ta that •'T a 1 tt:iy. t•..tP.t .':itt4,afid •ani- `' ' 'that have been. throe r four }'tn'ra= niea -Jr.•i Oak r.ly1:,-eti•:.•••,.:•- and n.t';ir- -titofra - grew i-ne; • ft—re----3 p r t A•e. -: to upon:funder=lung trucks-peciaily con- structed for their 'i*rez( we•eht and may he tran.rorted many mile, • at. the beh: AZ of landscape One of the sec'rd feat,: .,f tree niot ing ten; perft.rnte.l re••cntiy in •1 t- ran.' A venerable t ng,l 'r, ntelil l: trltsrt- r statesman sf tlic -pt . rr - plan ti t tCle. i,i i ;alr' •s t •' '.. °' fr"tnt of Neu V•.rk•s c; ty lia;l-- anll : i•id'n.;•: f' : r . ,•„i trate:=it'ant.,41 in the n..s (tn,"rr: John Ale k; otli- t,it '1. L'srk 'in T•tb:e The Irv.:is 'five fe' • 4, lr +•k��°4tY t1�yt tF9 rd. tli 'i tri - Lix.re wui Ci{N_'_ tt;as r., l.ty rents. Fite F.: r.,Ire:i men c.li're. a n:'r.+ t•r m.tve rho tree -a i`311:•t'3: ,ppf'r t:•'r. involving, 1ie:t,:ns an,i r-t:)err. fir in.,: 'T ”:•si:ens alt i ►r, that h..,t• r•, tt:ach,i -lanae. Th., Jai'an.•4e have :erg b'stt r+t:•'rrt Yt tree in o, intr. In ;Park .n T.441.0' t•'~e, a s'ing's r treo Hearty inti rear; 11.1 and :ri t.t•'t'iti iiaiti•'tsc, tlrie•r.n.ly it at.+od i .tu'ir,er ;•f ,a, ride away. Clear 1 Ht