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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1931-03-26, Page 7Man Impervious to High Speed In Straight Line, Say Scientists Washington. The theory that speed' is harmful tothe human system is no more true to -day, when, aviation en- gineers •,look toward machines which Will go 1,000 miles an, hour, than it was 100 years ago when railroads first began to move at fifteen miles an hour, government scientists say. "Man has attained speeds of over 250• miles an hour on the ground and has exceeded 350 miles an hour in the air," a statement by the Army Air Corpe and. the Aeronautics Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce points out. "So far as can be ascertained, there have been no bad effects ;manifesting themselves as a result of such rapid- ity, Should Selenee develop machines which are capable of 500 or 1,000 or even more miles an hour, there is no apparent reason why manshould not be able to withstand rates such as these.' "There _a, however, the asumption made that flight is in a straight line. Should the line of flight vary so as to include rapid turns, then other fac- tors dependent upon well known i:hysi_ cal laws Rat,tn in making a rapid turn a meson subjects himself to the mechanics of tht laws of centrifugal force. Just as tee water in a bucket which is swung rapidly in an outward direction, so that itpresses up against the bottom of the container .and does not•spi11, the blood in the human sys- tem reacts, - - • "An aviator in turning rapidly has his head toward the center of the cit- Ole and- the lower part of his body In the direction of the periphery, The. blood from the head, duo to the centri- fugal force, is sent in the direction of. the lower •tarts of the body',;wliich are towardthe outside of the circle in _ which he turns. Tho vessels in the lower part of the body, particularly the eplanchnic arteries of the abdomi- naa regier, are^'sufficiently elastic to receive this surplus, and the aviator in making au execeedfngly rapid turn causes in himself a Temporary anemia of the ]lead. The blood is withdrawn from the eyes and the brain, and he may beco -e Unconscious or may, as pilots dee a•ibe it, to black,' "Anolbe • element that"enters in the very fast plane is the possibility of dropping coo suddenly under power. 11 diving rapidly from an altitude of low air pressure to one of ..relatively blgh pressure another danger presents itself, The ears are particularly sen- sitive.to very rapid changes in pres- sure and may readily become injured under sot.., circumstances." ' Unofficial Record Set By Aviatrix ockefeller Views Capt. Boyd's Plane Miss :Ruth Nichols Climbs to Refuses Ride But Presents Ann Altitude of 30,450 Feet jersey City, N.J.-On Marclt 70. Miss Ruth Nichols climbed to an altitude of about six miles above he ever did in his life to taking an Ord %what to them is the finest holiday New York and Long Island and set airplane ride last Friday—and his of the year, the Hina Matsuri, in the an unofficial world record for wo- prospective . pilot was none other palace where they live with their men. The sealed barograph install -1 than Captain J._N7rroll Boyd, Canada's mother and father, the Empress and ed in the airplane has been sent to ' transatlantic flier. Emperor of Japan. The girls are the the Bureau of Standards in Wash- With a party of friends, the aged princesses Tern ant. Take. Hina Mat- suri i m nd in ton for calibration. tn lliona re came from his Or o 1 festival g o e b on. I ,surf is the annual girls' doll Two altimeters in the airplane Beach home to the beach here to of Japan, registered 30,450 and 30,350 feet. take a look at Captain Boyd's mono- j Masters et the dolimakers' art respectively,when she leaded after plane Colombia, holder of numerous worked for months preparing dolls for being. in tate air for 'an hour and a records. the Princesses' party. Court chamber- lains The previous world altitude CaptainIIoyd took the ship f rom arranged the dolls in ceremonial ,e ,dole stove in the side of the British steamer William Wil- berforce after collision with Norwegian steamer Bigdis at Cuxhaven, mouth or'River 'Elbe. Eight Planes Burn. Crime in Canada Soviet Controls In $150,000 Blaze Shows Increase Medical Profession Fierce Flame Consume Han- Convictions 24',097 in Last All the dignity and authority of gar at Winnipeg Flying Year. of :Record -21,720 sfa is regulated by the Government: Field • Previous Year i There is not much private Practise the medical profession in Soviet Rue- Winnipeg.—A fleet of. seven West -there are few • private hospitals Ottawa,—Crime is on the lecreaee m Cit of :soviet Fairchild cabin i St physicians are o and the great aje y in Canada; according to a report is- w , gin" ^ at fixed sal cru Canada Airways planes and a znaelilne, Drivate y sued by the Dominion Bureau of a• i 'lreS " owned, were lost in a fire last week tisties on offences dealt with in the This we learn from a. Moscow cor- that totally dastroyed the company's courts during 1920. Convictions for respondent 'of the Loudon aundny. lingo hangar at Stevenson Field, St_ indictable numbered 24,09T in 1029' as Observer, who goon on to say James, causing damage estimated at compared pith 2i; 720 iu 1920., At the That this socialization of meds• Mutat 5150,000. same time the pecentage of eouvtc- Flames broke out following an ex- Bono to charges Iaid was SI,4'9',: the cite does not always ifs , out horn plosion in the hangar. l Mgt -lost of the decade'. satisfactorily In actual life was shown More than a dozen mecltariles and - Ali types;.oi crime appear to be ad -when a brigade of volunteer hof (h• workers escaped from ,the building gators from tite,oflicliti organ of the %aiming in about the same degree, Moscow Soviet, Itabochaya Moskva, without injury as the blaze quickly .figures show, although numerically made a living eri'rc-v of the .nredical spread, No one was seriously burned.'theft ei'O�ows the 'greates•t increase,itistitutinns of Moscow and its en though minor injuries were reported moving up from 7,570 hi 1023 to 6,277 having been suffered by firefighters: fn the year under review. Murders vironments; Three .automobiles standing inside the The first pIlia that attracted' the show an incense of from 19 to 26, man- att;noon o[ the ,Investigators was structure also were destroyed. -. Started in Gas Tank? I slaughter from 3S to 40; assaults of a the extreme overcrowding of the , kinds from 2.071 to 3,114. On the hospitals and its aecompautment: 4y tnesses of the outbreak believed other hand offences ageinet decency the failure in some cases to Conder the blast occurred in the gasoline tank' were reduced from 439 to 403 Burg- medical. aid when .it was needed: of one of the planes. Every one in, Lary, shop and housebreaking . in- Tlnis Tact factor #nareaanl 1111157e the building hastily deserted as re-: creased 17 per cent. incendiarism and number of fatalities. lir the Verge suiting flames crept along the gas-; outer malicious acts against property Boutin Hospital, 40 per cent. of the soaked floor to other'machines, When fneredtsad 21 per cant.,. while forgery deaths take Place during :the first the first 1Vinnipeg fire brigade ar- advanreil by 30 per cont, five days after admission, 'mainly,' rived eight planes were in flames,' hi ; oeking 411'e -cause of the growth according to the investigators, 'be - several standing just outelde the Itan- in el iminal tendencies, .the conclusion ar, Firemen were hindered from ; • cause the patients were not received gis reached in the deport that crowded into the lief p:tal in time.' do- ing, effective work by lack of water cities ere one of the most important Th report also contains the state pressure. I factor.. "As the population in- meat: 'Patients wlto require surgical Two small Laird Plane, daiivered" creases," the report says, "not only aid are in the most lamentable, con-. only a short time ago, were among the! dogs the number of crimes increase, dition. A month and a half may flame -wrecked debris. The pride of i but the per capita rate increases with pass. before the patient abta:ns a the company's 'fleet, a large tri motor mathematical regularity. A calculation bed in the surgical department.' ed Fokker cabin' machine, also was' Dhows that, between 1901 and 1929, destroyed. •Canadian Flier vvlth Japan Holds -Annual Links Light hundred gallons of gasoline, $s stew A r Lire Links .tor ed outside the building, 11dUeAnco and Canada flames shortly after the blaze started. Daytona Beach, Pia, —John D. Tokyo. -Two little gh•ls, dressed in Razed i Hour _ c ilding' failed to Eight Dimes Doll Festival explode, though the tanks broke into Rockefeller, Sr., came as near as:brilliant kimonas, celebrated on March I n International Air Express to Attracted by one of the most spec- Have Terminals at De- troit tacular daytime fires in years, thous- ands of persona milled in the vicinity as flames shot hundreds of feet in the sky. Au hour after the outbreak the crime has increased approximately as ' the square of the population, and in support of this it may be pointed 0001 Dinner Will Be Spread that the records show the crime rate, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.—A flock of sett in the judicial distrIcts including the gulls trained by a schoolboy to fol- cities of Montreal,. Toronto and Remit- low a ferryboat from one shore of ton runs from 300 to, 500 per 100,000 the Hudson River to the otter:er is ate population,. while in the- rural. districts tracting the interest of people a Bea - the crime rate averages 90• to the 100s- con and Newbnrea. cities on yppesite and Browns- 000. sides of the river 15 -miles south 00 %tile Married persons appear to be less here. Frame hangar had been levelled. liable to the commission of crimes.1 In the morning. when the boy A new airline, International Air Air -mail Services from. Winnipeg Although they represented over 57 per boards the ferry et Beacon to' go to Express, limited to express and pas- were interrupted by the fire, but "only cent. of the population, they are re- school in Newburgh, the gulls. are 1engers, is e be opened Canada.dat May momentarily," according to oEirials• sponsibte for only 40- per tent, of the 'resting cu tile river near the boat. t minas Mexico with dtae Its - . - _ crime. LT;married Demons, represent- As the ferry pulls out, they take to terminals in the United States will ing•slightly over 35 per cent. of the the air and follow It, .gathering be at Detroit and Brownsville. The Belt Honors population, were respanstbla for 58 per crumbs which the youth spreads on new service, it was learned here will cent_ of the offences committed is the ' the deck. In the afternoon, when he ie ready to• return home,. the birdi are waiting on the Newburgh 51017 and follow the ferry across the riven again, Sea Gulls Know Where record for women was set by Miss I its hangar to the beach for the bene- fashion and prepared for the grand bring the two borders within twenty - dinner a which ePrincessesfive hours of each other . Elinor Smith when she reached 27: fit of the oil magnate. I t hi h th were Soldier -Pigeon 415 feet a year ago. The record 1 But Mr. Rockefeller declined with r g Hosts to their relatives. Final plaits as to the route have for military airplanes is 43,066 feet, held by Lieut. Apollo Soucek, of the United States Navy, and that for commercial airplanes, 30,457 feet, hold by George Haldeman. Dressed in a reindict -shin flying party tools short hops in the plane. suit, fur-llued Labrador sign boots "How many members of your and gloves and a helmet lined with family?" "Neighbor John," as he is fur, Miss Nichols climbed into her affectionately Itnown here, asked Captain Boyd, who told him, "Well, here's a dime for your Katanga Railway tl ti t o father, one, thanks to take a Tide. He did, however, inspect the ship, asking numerous questions. Mrs. John Dick of Toronto, and other membere of - the Rockefeller monoplane which had been especial - 1y equip,,^.ed and tested for the flight, started the airplane down the run- way and leaped into the' air at 12.33 p.m. It was the same airplane hi which she set her transcontinental speed record for women last Decem- eight slimy coins hi the Canadian her. Persons in the streets and at flier's halide. windows in Manhattan heard the shriek of the metal propeller and stopped to watch the airplane as it circled over the city 'before Miss. Nichols wheeled into the stiff west wind and began to climb througb the clouds. The airplane' made some progress toward the west, "but .finally, as far as making distance over the ground was concerned," Miss Nichols said after she landed, "I found myself standing still." In 30 minutes she reached an altitude of 28,500 feet and it took 20 minutes to finish. the climb. • "It was an interesting experience," she said, "I'd like to try it again. ;The wind was. surprisingly strong. It roust have been 100 miles au Itour— a west wind that blew me about five Smiles out to sea. I dropped a few Itimes and rose again, always- trying ito increase my altitude. "Doing the last few thousand feet, it ,did not seem as if I was moving at all, I seemed to be staring at Ithe same fixed point below me, The Clouds appeared to be a level mass and I seldom saw the earth." "I felt warm and comfortable (throughout," she continued. "The (thing that amazed mo most was the lease of my experience."' Little his throughout the Empire not been announced, but the planes also celebrated the festival and even will make stops at St. Louis, where in the reraote villages parents par` they will connect with the Trans - chased new dello and arrauged cere- continental and Western Air Lines; menial parties. Shops throughout Cincinnati, connecting with a divis- ion of American Airways, and Dallas and Fort Worth,. Texas, anti Tulsa, At Brownsville the line will con- nect with Pan • American Airways, *alma C 1•y division, and at Detroit mother, another for your . e connections will be made with Cana- I�IOc'7 CW. seeanl1 diad Airway, Ltd. The fares will ap- Por your wife, one each for your four mt,„ruent,,,re. S. Af.—The scopic• proximately be rail plus Pullman cliildron, and one for yourself,” Mr. Rockefeller said as he placed the Japan for we^k.; displayed dolls for sale at prices running into thousands of yen each, Westbound Plane S M•ts New Record Canadian Airways Plane De- livers Mail in Two Hours in Montreal -Toronto Trip Toronto — Shattering the previous record by half an hour, a Canadian Airways plane carrying the mails, recently made the westbound trip from Montreal to Toronto in two hours fiat. Piloted by V. J. "Shorty' Hatton, the fast Steai'inan speed plane took off from at. Hubert airdrome at 9.15 a.m. and landed at Toronto airport, Duffe •fn Street, at 11.15, after travel*, ling at a speed of 168 miles an hour, The time 4s;. considered particularly fast as westbound planes usually have to contend with the prevailing westerlies. The plane was favored with a fair "tail wind," the pilot stat- ed, The eastboundtrip has been doue in an hotir and 4D minutes. How good is man's life, the mere living—how fit to employ. Veteran Prelate Dies in Alberta Archbishop Grouard, Aged 91, Was Master of Dozen Indian Languages Edmonton—Bearded patriarch of the north, Rt. Rev. Atchbishop Emile Grouard, is dead after seven decades of missionary effort is Canada's frontier country. At 01 years of ago, the Roman Catholic prelate .:sae. cumbed on Sunday to a lingering ill• nets at Grouard, Little hamlet is the Peace River country, named in his honor. No diving white man, it has been, said, was so' familiar with the Indian tribes of the 'north. In tending the spiritual needs of the frontier na- tives, Father Grouard became a ling- uistic expert, gaining the ability to converse fluently In a dozen different Indian dialects. tion by the Belgians of the railway through Western Iiatauga will bring Johannesburg four days nearer Eng- land. Many were skeptical at one time that this line, stretching away from the Congo forests and the great cop- per belt of Iatauga to the distant At- lantic, would be completed for many Years. Constructed by the Belgians, the Katanga railway is now virtually com- pleted, and it is expected that the last few rails will be laid shortly and the line formally opened in May, It will then be possible to travel in comfort from Johannesburg to Lobito Bay on the Atlantic Ocean, four days nearer to' England than Cape Town, from any station in the Union or Rhodesia. It is past all controversy that what costs dearest fie, and ought to be, most valued.—Cervantes. The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is to go beyond the mark.—La Rochefoucauld. Hutslnpilier—"But why did you buy a dachshund for the children?" Haas- ennfeffer—"So that they can all pet him at once." tariffs. Equipment for the new line in- cludes'several of the new model Ford tri -motors and the Northrop low -wing express and passenger planes. When the service is opened daily service will be maintained between Brownsville and St. Louis, with rail connections for northbound passen- gers at St. Louis on fast night trams. Outer schedules call for daily opera- tion of planes on an all -daylight. schedule between Detroit, Cincinnati and Dallas, Further details of the schedules will be announced later, it was said. Planes Carry Food To' Snowbound Astronomers Tokyo —Five observers of the Tokyo ISeteorological Observatory, snowbound in their hut at the sum- mit of Mt. Fuji since last autumn, are being supplied fresh vegetables and fish by airplane, Tired of a calmed diet, they ap- pealed for fresh food, and over the telephone line which links their sta- tion with the lowland they made ar- rangements for airplanes to drop supplies for them, They are study Mg high altitude air currents. Unveils Memorial at Bruosela to 20,000 Birds Killed in Great War Brussels, Belgium—Belgium will du honor to the 20,000 messenger pig- eons killed In the Great War. A 'memorial to the soldier -pigeon was unveiled on the square of the pig market where pigeon fancierii have their headquarters, recently. Prince Leopold, the French ambas- sador, and .the famous burgomaster. Max, were among those present. A delegation also attended on behalf of Belgium's war allies, led by Britain. Simultaneously with the unveiling, 5,000 pigeons were released from the base of the memorial. The memorial is le the form of a graceful female figure with an exten- ed arni on which a pigeon stands with outspread wiugs. It has been erected by a national sabscriptinn. Belgians, more than any other peo- ple, are pigeon lovers, M. van Op - pens, vice-president of the National Federation of Pigeon Fanciers, polut- ed out. Japan Welcomes New Royal Heiress Tokyo — The arrival of a new Princess at the Imperial Palace on March 7th caused all Japan to cel- ebrate. • Slues only male descendants of the Japanese Emperore may occupy the throne, Prince Chicltibu, younger brother of Emperor Hirohito, re - melee as the heir presumptive of the oldest unbroken royal line in the world, The line was established in 660 B. C, and Hirohito is the 124th Emperor. King Winter Visits City of Canals For the first time In several years, Snow fell in Venice receftly, font inched of it, Many, of smaller c.. :3 01.. a e.i a ut 1.,1 _.. and picturesque gondola were blanketed' with white. • .0)- a -•"' tt year undo• review. Spring Song By Anne et Robinson -- ft will soon be time for Bob White's First Movie Camera whistle, Shown at MuseumIt will soon be time for the trIi hums' bloom, London—A curious- looking appara` It will soon be time for the purple tis with no less than 16 lenses low thistle on. view in the Science Museum, To go a -courting in silken plume. South Kensington, was the forerun` . per of the modern cinematograph It will soon be tune for the grass to flurry Its green tire over the bare hill- side. For the wild plum tree to wake and in tate year 1808. together with two hurry spools of celluloid with sliver -nate Tato its blossomy veils, a bride. ed margine lead by him for develop- ' in . pints,, It will soon be time for the winging The canto is have been loaned to plover the ntueettnt lee the iuvontors daugh- To seek his urate by a sea of blue, to :Wee DIarie Le Prince, Bosh It will soon be time for the four-leaf the 16.1eue sad the single lane clover, camera. It was constructed by Louis Le Prince in Paris in the year 1857. There is also the movie camera with one lens made by him at Leeds With luck and love and dreams Horne of Browning comett''uel Record Early ySeeding In 'Saskatchewan Area Webb, Sask,—AgLbC:ulturists of this district of south-western Saskatche- wan made claim on February 25th of au early seeding record for western Canada, )i'ietds have been bare of snow for weeks, and with mild weather prevail- ing for many days, land. Is in perfect condition for spring work. Several farmers of the district have started cultivation hnd last week seed drills were at work on the farm Of Li• C. Thier•mau, near here sowing wheat. Farmers have no recollection of wheat being seeded In February in any former year, and pioneers say it is a record for the Prairie Provinces. Titis is not the only agticulturai're- cord to be shattered. In January Al- berta Iberta farmers, during the ,sweep of the mild wave across the Prairtes, concluded threshing of wheat which had been halted by unfavorable fall weather. Finland Opens Building Helstngtors, Finland FinIand's new Parliament building, which re- quired four years for building and cost the equivalent of $2,500,000, was inaugurated recently in the presence of the chairmen and vice-chairmen of the Estonian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and Lettish Diets. Over most of the country the duoks and geese, seeking again their ac- customed nesting grenade, are push- ing northward, following closely the retreating ice as it once more ex- poses their sprouting food in the ooze of marsh or swamp., Mating is prevalent in lvlaroh. Wolverines,. pshers, minks, ; weasels, , otters, red foxes, lynxes, and ohipmunits, are courting. The young skunks are be - hayed to, select their life mates at this time. Hepatica and spring; beauties are peeping up through the leaves in southern woods Learn to love have you been all this time?" them in the woods where they be- 1 The man wiped the perspiration long. Leave them thereto find' an- from his 1)00w. "Boes," he tearfully other year.—Nature Magazine. replied. "I've ,been coming back," , Offered For Sale London,—se charming old-fashioned house at lice 19 Warwick Crescent is for sale. It to the home where Robert Browning lived for 2G years, from 1861 to 1887. There he wrote "The Ring and the Book,' and kept geese in the garden point, There aro mere people sticking to the straight and narrow path nowa- days. They have to, the traffic is 6o heavy. --.0 tl ary Herald, 'Wee!, Jock, Ah hear ye've ge:. tnarijed," ",0.ye, Donald." "An' what kind o' match did ye utak?" "Seel. Donald, to tell ye the truth, Alt Ohm do sae v'eel as Alt expected, but Alt dints think' site did either." Sewing•maciriue needles which have become blunted can be sharpened by stiteltht3 a few inches through a Piece of slinJpaper. The young wife was heartbroken. "SiVhat's the natter?" asked a -friend. "Oh, my husband is so abseut-minded. After breakfast he left a tip on the table, and when I handed him kis hat he gave mo another tip." "Well, that's nothing to worry about. Jut force of habit." "That's what worries me. He kissed me when I gave him his over- coat." ver-coat" A house agent had a farm on his books which was supposed to be haunted, and to prove rumor wrong he decided to engage a man to stay, there for one night. The following day he was up early and went round to see how the man had fared. Bat the mau was not to be found. Oa,. the lawn he discovered the remainst of a window sash and shutters mom- pletely wrecked, butof the watchman' there was no sign, Four days later the house agent came - across him tramping along 8 country- lane three miles ,away. "Hallo, George," ho cried. "Where'