Zurich Herald, 1931-03-19, Page 6Mao Impervious to High Speed
I. Straight Line, Say Scientists
'ashingtoit.—The theory that. speed direction, so that it presses up against
ie harmful to the IreseeseisOeste2lis is no , the bottom of the container and does.
more true to-claa A- .vi ixtou en- not epill, the blood In the human acre;
gisteers looks toward 1tt :which ten] reaet3. �;,
will go 1,0.Q0 miles b: `^able then it'
"An aviator in turning rapidly Hili!
was 100 years ago 'Nh'e1vail'1'aads fleet •1ii head toward the center of the sir;
began to hove at fifteeJ •nhlies an cle and the lower part of hie body in
heal•, government scientists. ;,ay. • the ciii•eetion of the periphery. The
"Man has attained speeds 'of aver : blood from the head, clue to the eentri-
250 miles all hour on the ground and fugal force, le sent in the direction of
has exceeded 350 miles au hour in the ' the lower arts of the body, which are
sir," a stateinent by the Army Air toward the outside of the circle in
Corps and the Aeronautics Bureau of which he turns. The vessels in the
the Chamber of Commerce points out. 1 lower part of the body, particularly
"So far as can be. ascertained, there' the splanehnic arteries of the abdoilli-
have been no batt effects manifesting -'nal regini , are sufficiently elastic to
themselves as a result of such rapid-. receive this surplus, and the aviator in
ity. Should science develop machines; malting an exereedingly rapid turn
which are capable of 500 or 1,000 or! causes in himself a temporary anemia
even more miles an hour, tliei•e is no `of the head. Tlie blood is withdrawn
apparent reason wlty man should not' from the ryes and the brain, and he
be able to withstand rates such as may beeo::.s unconscious or may, as
these, pilots des •rifle it, 'go biaek.'
"There .s, however, the asumption "Anothe • dement that enters in tate
made that flight is in a straight sine. very fast plane is the possibility of
Should the line of flight vary so as to dropping woo suddenly under power.
include rapid turns, then other fac- I1 diving rapidly from an altitude of
tors dependent upon well known physi- low air pressure to one of relatively
cal laws 'natal'. in making a rapid high pressure another danger presents
turn a person subjects himself to the itself. The ears are particularly seu-
mecltanies of the laws of centrifugal sitive to very rapid changes in pres-
force. Just as the water in a bucket sure and may readily become injured
which is swung rapidly in an outward ander snt..t circumstances."
Unofficial Record Rockefeller Views
Set By Aviatrix Capt. Boyd's Plane
Miss Ruth Nichols Climbs to Refuses Ride . But Presents
A11 Altitude of 30,430 1 Canadian Flier With Japan Holds Annual
Feet 1 Eight Dimes Doll Festival'
Eight Planes Eurax
150,000 Blaze
Fierce Flame Consume Han"
gar at Winnipeg Flying
. Field
Winnipeg.—A fleet of seven WeSt-
e.
ern Canada Airways punas and a
Fairchild cabid machine, pet -irately
owned, were lost in a fire last week
that totally destroyed the company's
huge hangar at Stevenson Field, St,
,Ialnes, causing damage estiinated at,
about $150,000.
Flashes broke out following an ex -
Plosion in the hangar. •
More than a dozen mecllaliics and
Workers escaped from the building
without injury as the blaze quickly
spread. No one was seriously burned,
though minor injuries were reported
having been suffered by firefighters.
Three automobiles standing inside the
structure also were destroyed.
Started in Gas Tank?
Witnesses Of the outbreak believers
the blast occurred in the gasoline tank
of one of the planes. Every one in
the building hastily deserted as re-
sulting flames crept along the gas -
soaked floor to other machines. When
the first Winnipeg fire brigade ar-
rived eight places were in flames,
several standing just outside the han-
gar. Firemen were hindered from do-
ing effective work by lack of water
pressure.
Two small Laird planes, delivered
only a short time ago, were among the
mart • : •in the .sirt+;, of tb f'los's steamer 1�liitilii 11'it- flame -wrecked debris. The pride of
bet•foice after collision with Norwegi x attaaniei Bi• dis at Cuxhaven, the company's fleet, a large tri -motor -
mouth of River Elbe. y'
Jersey City, N.J.—On March 7th j Daytona Beach, Fla. — John D. Tokyo.—Two little girls, dressed in •'•
Bliss Ruth Nichols climbed to ani Rockefeller, Sr., caste as near as brilliaut kimonas, celebrated on March` 4.:
altitude of about six miles above • he ever slid 11.1. 1.11 life to taking au 3rd what to, them is the finest holiday
New 'fork and Long Island and set airplaue ride last Friday—ants his of the year, •the Hina Matsui, in the
an unofficial world record for wo- • prospective pilot was none other ; palace where, they live with their
men. The sealed barograph install-: than Captain J. Erroll Boyd, Canada's ; another and father, the Empress and
ed in the airplane has been seui to transatlantic flier. • Emperor of Japan. The girls are the
the Bureau of Standards itt Wash -1 With a party of friends, the aged Princesses Tern ant. Takes Hina -Mat- heat ;airline. International Air
ington for calibration i millionaire carte from his. Ormond , sari is the annual girls' doll festival E .gt•es', 1iinitecI to express and pas -
Two altimeters in the airplane , Beach home to the ,leach dere to of Japan. seiireets is to be opened about May
Air, Lh a Links
exico and Canada
International Air Express to
:Have Terminals at De-
troit and Browns-
ville
registered 30,450 and 20.350 feet, ` take a look at Captain Boyd's mono- Masters 'or the dolimakers' art 1 'lietg sllexico with Canada. Its
respectively. when she landed after plane Coltm bia. holder of numerous worked for mouths preparing dolls fo h* e1lie kiis in the United States will
being in the air for au hour and a records. the Pl]ucesses' party. Court ehauil be at Detroit and Brownsville. The Belgium Honors
half. The previous world altitude' Captain Boyd took the ship from lairs arranged the dolls in ceremon l" nese service, it was learned here will b
Crime in Canada
Shows Increase
ed Fokker cabin machine, also was•
destroyed.
Eight hundred gallons of gasoline,
stored outside the building, failed to
explode, though the tanks broke into
flames shortly after the blaze started.
Razed in Hour
Attracted by one of the most spec-
tacular daytime fires in years, thous-
ands of persons milled iu the vicinity
as flanges shot hundreds of feet in the
sky. An hour after the outbreak the
frame hangar had been levelled.
Air -mail services from Winnipeg
were interrupted by the fire, but "only
momentarily," according to officials.
record for women was set by -miss 1 its hangar to the beach for the bene- fashion and" prepared for the grants' being the two borders within twenty -
Elinor Smith when she reached 27.-1 Sit of the oil magnate.
418 feet a year ago. The record i But Mr. Rockefeller declined with , hosts to their relatives. se
for military airplanes is 43.066 feet, i thanks to take a ride. Hek did: i Little girls throughout the Empe e'
held by Lieut. Apollo Soueek, of the I however, inspect the ship: asking i also celebrated the festival and eyed'
United States Navy, anti that for i numerous _questions. , in the remote villages parents puts
Commercial airplanes, 30,457 feet. Mrs. John Dick of Toronto, and! chased new dolls and arranged cere-
held by George Haldeman. other members of the Rockefeller; moihial parties. Shops throughout
Dressed in a reindeer -skin flying party took short hops in the plane. Japan per week.; displayed dolls for
stair; tiir-hued Lahrador skin boots; "How many members of youri sale at prices running into thousands
and gloves and a helmet lined witl tTattiliv?" "?neighbor John." as be is i of yen eltea.
fur. Miss Nichols climbed into her I affectionately known here, asked
. ,Way
dinner a4 which the Princesses were five hours of each other.
Final Plans as to the route have
not been announced, but the planes
will make stops at St. Loris, where
they will connect with the Trans-
continental and~ Western Air Lines;
Cincinnati, Connecting with a divis-
ion of American Airways, and Dallas
'and Fort Worth, Texas; and Tulsa.
•.,,r pree eeville the line will con-
nect kith Pan Amercais Airways;
Mexico City division, and at Detroit
connections: will be made with Cana-
dian Airway, Ltd.. The fares will ap-
proximately be rail puts Pullman
tariffs.
Equipment for the new line in-
cltides several o: the new model Ford
-'til-inotors and the Northrop low–wing
Many were skeptical at one time ,eXlsi•ess and passenger planes.
that this line, stretching away frosty'
the Congo forests and the great+, ssli-
Per belt of Katanga to the dista11 ilii
land', would be completed for 'Many
years.
Constructed by the Belgians, the
Katanga railway is now virtually com-
monoplane which had been especial Captain Boyd, who told him. ,
lv equipped and tested for the flight Well here's a clime for your ; Katanga Rails
started the airplane down the rush mother, another for your father, one I Now Completed
way and leaped into the air at 12.33 ' for your wife. one each for your tour Johannesburg. S. Ai.—The comple-
p.m. It was the sane airplane in children and one for yourself," 1ir
which she set her transcontinental Rockefeller said as he placed the t
speed record for women last Decem- eight shiny coins in the Canadian I
ber. Persons in the streets and at , titer's hands.
windows it1 Manhattan heard the _ i ".—
shriek of the metal propeller and ;
stopped to watch the airplane as it x )�
circled over the city before _hissPrelate
a
Nichols wheeled into the stiff west
cs in louds.
wind and began to climb througl• the t
clouds.
The airplane made some progrpc Archbishop Grouard, Aged
toward the west, "but finally, as fat
as making distance over the ground , 91, Was Master of Dozen
was eoncersted," 'Miss Nichols said;
ion by the Belgians of the railway
hrough Western ICntanga tvi11 bring•
ohannesburg four days nearer Eng
land,
Indian Languages
after she landed, "I found myself i Edmonton --Bearded patriarch of the
standing still:' In 30 minutes she , north, Rt.•Rev. Archbishop Emile
reached an altitude of 23,500 feet and ; (lrau<trd, is dears after seven decades
it took 20 minutes to finish the 1 of missionary effort in Canada's
climb. • frontier country. At 01 years of ate,
"11 was an interesting experielteo," i the Roman Catholic. prelate sue -
she said. "I'd like to try it again. ;numbed on Sunday to a lingering i]1-
The wind was surprisingly strong. I- . chess at Gemmel, Little hamlet in the
ill -
must have been 100 utiles an hour--- + Peace River country, named in his
a west wind that blew me about five honor:
rnilee out to sea. I dropped a few l \o living white man, it has been
times and rose agate, always trying said, was so familiar with the Indian
to increase my altitude., •
tribes of the north. In tending the 1
"Doing the last few thousand feet-„]i.itua1 needs of the frontier na-
it did not seen- as if I was moving ' `
all.I seemed to be staring at tines, Father Granard became a ling-
atic expert, gaining the ability to
the same axed point below sue. The i converse fluently in 0 dozen different
clouds appeared to be a level mass Indian dialects.
and I .seldom saw the earth.”
"I felt warns and comfortable'
throughout," she continued. "The
thing that amazed Inc most was the
ease of my experience."
Westbound Plane .
Sets New Record
Canadian Airways Plane De -1
livers Mail in Two Hours
in Montreal -Toronto
Trip
Toronto — Shattering the previous
record by half an hour, a Canadian
Airways plane carrying the malls,
recently made the westbound trip
from Montreal to Toronto in Iwo
hours flat,
Piloted by V. J. "Shorty" Hatton,
the fast Stearman speed plane took 1
off from St. Hubert airdrome at 9,15
s,.m_ and landed at 0.10ronto airport,
t1)1tfferin Street, at 11.15, after travel-
ling at a speed of 168. utiles an hour.
The time is considered particularly
fast as westboutnd planes usually
have to contend With the prevailing
westerlies. The plane was favored
With a fair "tail wind," the pilot stat-
ed.
The eastbound trill has been (tone
in an -tour and 40 minutes.
Iiow good is man's .life, the 1.13:'•1
living—how fit to etnl>loY,
When the service is opened daily
service'will be maintained between
Brownsville and St. Louis, with rail
too inections for northbound passeu-
ge•'s at • St. Louis on fast night trains.
(Other schedules call for daily opera -
of planes on an all -daylight
pleted, and it is expected that the last ecleedule between Detroit, Cincinnati
few rails will be laid shortly and theeristeiS Dallas. Further details of the
line formally opened in May. It .w111 hedules will be announced later, It
then be possible to travel in comforte '
was said.
from Johannesburg to Lobito Bay on ' ? --�--- the Atlantic Ocean, four days nearer lanes Carry Food To
to England than Cape Town, from anyre s Carr Snowbound Astronomers
station in the Union or Rhodesia.
? . Tokyo .-- Five observers of the
It is past 011 controversy that wha Tokyo meteorological Observatory,
casts dearest is, and ought to'be, nos satgWbound,in their hut at the sum-
vahiecl.—Cervantes, t of Mt. Fuji since last autumn,
4� nee being supplied fresh vegetables
The greatest fault of a penetratin 'aitd fish by airplane.
wit is to go beyond the maurk.—L Tired of a casuled diet, they ap-
Rochefoucaltici. pealed for fresh food, and over the
2•— telephone line which links their sta-
Itutsisipiller—"But why did you buy theft with the lowland they made ar-
e dachshund for the children?" Haas- railgenhents for airplanes to drop
supplies for them. They are study-
ing high altitude air currents.
enpfeffer—"So that they can all pet
him at once." :}
Soldier -Pigeon
Convictions 24,097 in Last
Year of Record -21,720
Previous. Ye':
Ottawa.—Crime is oiltlto•• ib�e
in Canada, according to' a' rerllbl't •t5
sued by the Dominion Bureau of Sta-
tistics on offences dealt with in tate
courts during 1929. ' Convictions for
indictable numbered 24,097 in 1929 as ,
compared with 21;720 in 1938. At the
same time the pecelitage of convic-
tions to charges laid was 81.49, the
highest of the decade.
All types of criiiie appear to be ad-
vancing in about the same degree,
figures show, although numerically '
theft shows the greatest iucreaee,
moving up from 7,870 in 1923 to 8,777
in the year under review. Murders
show an incense of from 19 to 26, man
slaughter from 35.,to 49, assaults of all
kinds from 2.673 to 3,114. On the
other Band offences against (thews
were reduced from 439 to 402. Burg
lacy, shop and housebreaking in.
creased 17 per cent. Incencliarisin and
other malicious aces against property
increased 21 per cent„ while forgery
advanced by 30 per cent.
In seeking the cause of the growth
In criminal tendencies, the conclusion
is reached in the deport that crowded
cities are one of the most important
factors. "As the populationin-
creases," the report says, "not only
does the number of crimes increase,
bat the per capita rate increases with
mathematical regularity. A calculation
shows that, between. 1901 and 1929,'
crime has increased approximately as
the square of the population, and in
support of this it may be pointed out
that the records show the crime rate
in the judicial districts including the
cities of Montreal, Toronto and Hamil-
ton runs from 300 to 500 pee 100,000
population, while in tU.e rural districts
the crime rate averages 90 to the 100;
000.
Married persons appear to be less
liable to the commission of crimes. IY,
Although they represented over 57 pet
cent. of the population, they are re-
sponsible for only 40 per cent. of the
crime. Unmarried persons, represent-
ing slightly over 35 per cent. o3 the
population, were responsible for 53 per
cent. of the offences committed in the
year uncles review.
Unveils Memorial at Brussels
to 20,000 Birds Killed
in Great War
Beussels, Belgium—Belgium will do
honor to the 20,000 messenger pig-
eons killed in -the Great War.
A memorial to the soldier -pigeon
was tinveiled on tTie" yscivaie of. the
pig market where pigeon • •fanciers
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 in the forth or a
graceful female figure with an exten-
ed arni on which a pigeon stands
with outspread wings. It has been
erected by a national subscriptinn.
Belgians, more than any other peo-
ple, are pigeon lovers, M. Van OP -
pens, vice-president of the National
Federation of Pigeon Fanciers, point-
ed out. ,
Japan Welcomes
New Royal Heiress
Tokyo — The arrival of it new
Princess at the Imperial Palace on
M=arch 7th caitsed all' Japan to cel-
ebrate.
Since only male descendants of the
Japanese Emperors may occupy the
throne, Prince Chichibu, younger
brother of Emperor Hirohito, re-
mains as do heir presumptive of
the oldest unbroken royal line in the
world. The line was established ih
660 B. C. and Hirohito is the 124th
Emperor.
King Winter iTisitis City of Canals
.mow._..... -. ;�,...,,----•�•
b'or the first 'time in several years, snow fell In Venice reeeatly*four 111(1119 of it, Many of smaller
end pir•tairesque gondolas war. blanleeted with white,
mals were ropen, and 1, ,
Spring Song
By Anne M. Robinson
it will soon be time for Bob White's
whistle,
It will soon be time for the tril-
liums' bloom,
It 'will sbe time for the purple
thistleoon
1'0 00. a courting in, silken plume.
It will soon be tithe for the grass to
Burry
Its green fire over the bare hill -
For the wild 111un1 tree to wake azul
hurry
into its blossomy veils, a bride.
It will soon be time for the winging
plover
To seek his mate by a sea of blue,
It will soon be time for the four-leaf
clover,
With luck and love and dreams
come true!
Record Early Seeding
In Saskatchewan Area
Webb; Saslc.—Agriculturists of ibis
district of south-western Saskatche-
wan made claim on February .25th of
an early seeding record for western'
Canada.
Fields have been hare 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 and last week seed
drills were at work on the farm of A.
C. Thierman, 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.
This is not the only agricultural re-'
cord to 11e shattered. Iu January Al-
berta fanners, during the seveep of
the mild wave across the Prairies,
concluded threshing of wheat which
had been halted by unfavorable fail
weather.
Finland Opens Building
Ilelsingfors, Finland — Finland'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 lOstoniau, Swedish, Norwegian,
Danish and Lettish Diets.
Over most of the country the ducks
and geese, seeking again their are
eustoiued nesting grounds, are push-
ing northward, following 'closely the
retreating',Ice, as- it once more exw
poses their sprouting food in the
ooze of marsh oe swamp., Mating
is prevalent in March, Wolverines,
rashers, Minks, weasels, otters, red
foxes, lynxes, and ohipmunks ard:
courting, Tito young ekunkaa are .be-
lieved to select their life mates at title
time. Hepatica and spring beauties
are peeping; till through the leaves In
aotltheru wei.dt. Learn to lova
thein in the woods •where they be,
long; l.t;ave them there to find atm.•
other y tar.--Nattih•e MageSine.