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Show UINTAH BASIN RECORD Keeping Up Balloons to Protect London From Airplanes Wide Uses Predicted teGit for Windmill Plane That Has No Wings By LEONARD H. ENGEL Science Service. WNU Service. Cosmic Rays Created by Annihilation of Elements in Space New eviWashington. dence for the creation of powerful cosmic rays through the annihilation of the universes commonest chemical elements, sparsely scattered in the far reaches of space, was presented here before Academy of Science by Dr. Robert A. Millikan, Nobel prize man, of the California Institute of Technology. The first evidence obtained by science that the suns magnetic field extends out into space, enveloping the earth and the whole solar system, has also resulted from Dr. Millikans latest cosmic ray researches. Millikan, with his colleagues, Drs. I. S. Bowen and H. Victor Neher, probed the earths atmosphere with balloons practically to its top. They found that the way in which the energy in incoming, highly penetrating cosmic rays is distributed gives evidence for the annihilation theory of cosmic ray production. Elements That Are Destroyed. The most abundant elements that are destroyed in creating cosmic rays are carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen, together with relatively high percentages of sodium, silicon, and aluminum. These are among the commonest elements in the universe. The elements that give rise to cosmic rays range in atomic weight between 6 and 28. Hydrogen, and perhaps helium, are also known to be extremely plentiful throughout the universe, and the fact that no cosmic rays corresponding to their energy of annihilation have been found gave Dr. Millikan his lead to the newly recognized extent of the suns magnetic field. The earths magnetic field has been known to change the direction of cosmic rays. Similarly, the sun keeps the less powerful rays of hydrogen and helium origin from getting to earth. V 'PJ- - Washington Write this in your book: A place in the air for the windmill aircraft within five years. Aviation men and others here are freely predicting widespread adoption of the new autoglro that is emerging today from years of quiet experimental work without benefit of publicity. A rapidly-growin- g list of uses is being compiled for new varieties of the windmill plane that can do things no ordinary airplane can duplicate. I went up in one of the new s demonstrated here by W. Wallace Kellett of Philadelphia. We took off in 25 feet. We landed almost literally on a dime the wheels struck the earth and stopped, hardly moving a millimeter. Up in the air we stood stock still, we moved sideways, we turned as though an axle pierced the fuselage. And the pilot did all that simply by maneuvering the three whirling blades above the fuselage of the newest type of rotatable wing air- 1: At 7 M I V i sgggjf Ax" V $ y - auto-giro- craft. ,.r a t '.? ,! I4 ' I ' V f h - 4i " y' $ attacks of enemy aircraft a e Balloons for the barrage for the protection of London from the England, recently. shown as they were tried out on the field for the Empire day demonstrations at Cardington, of means a as balloons trapping enemy the nets between to The plan of British air strategists is string heavy airplanes and preventing their appearance over London for bombing forays. much-discuss- Abilities such as these have the Navy men are curious, too, and so are foresters, coast guardsmen, persons conCHAMP BROAD JUMPER a cerned with air mail, and others. Autoglro Has No Wings. The autogiro has come a long way during the decade since the late Senor Juan de la Cierva, its Inventor who was killed in the crash of a transport plane in 1936 in just the kind of accident he sought to prevent with his craft, brought it to the United States. Today, the trim machine demonstrated by Kellett has no wings, depending for its lift entirely on ? the whirling blades. With a 225 I . ' f horsepower motor powering a propeller to give it forward speed and turning the overhead blades for the take off, the autoglro can make 125 miles an hour; it can lift more, TV , v S rise more sharply and quickly than Aw the predecessors which attracted so much attention hardly more than i half a dozen years ago. And technical men in various fields and government services are 4 seeing quickly that its uncanny maneuverability will find ready application. The army wants it for spotting artillery fire and for observation and reconnoitering. You could have 3 Heres Mack Robinson, University drawn a detailed picture of Washof Oregons Negro star as he leaped is being tried out by L. A. 24 feet 2 inches to win the broad ington while we were above it, so The newest refinement in hitch-hikin- g nearly motionless did we hover. The Schaldenbrand of Detroit, Mich., who is seeking lifts from considerate jump event in the Facific Coast conautogiro would also be useful for motorists who would be kind enough to tow him westward. ference meet at Berkeley, Calif. liaison operations. The navy may find it useful for spotting naval gunfire for it has English Tennis Ace Seedless Tomatoes Grown the advantage of being able to Defeats Helen Moody hover, yet being so maneuverable by the Use of Chemicals that It can follow the course of an Miss Mary Ruth Hardwick, Great enemy fleet second-rankinBritains womai Columbia, Mo. Tomatoes without In wide use Airplanes are already tennis dein the are player, who defeated Mrs. seeds for dusting fields with insect poisons, being grown i partment of horticulture at the Uni but it is a risky business, moving Helen Wills Moody in the quarterversity of Missouri here by use of along at nearly 100 miles an hour final round of the St. George Hill chemicals. only a few feet above the ground. Hence, another use Is seen for the Normally tomatoes require and fertilization to set fruit, autogiro: hovering a few feet above Vr but that also means that seeds will the ground spreading a chemical I ' v cloud Is not a risky business for the be formed. So the Missouri workers pinch out the parts of the flower rotatable wing aircraft. Spotting that produce the pollen, thus stop- diseased trees has also been suci ping fertilization, and then seek an- cessfully accomplished. other stimulus in the form of a g substance, or hor. Lindberghs Glass Heart mone, to cause the fruit to set The result is that tomatoes develKeeps Many Organs Alive op normally, but instead of containing seeds and pulp, the tomatoes Philadelphia. CoL Charles Lindare solid meat. The fruit is of berghs invention, the "glass heart, normal size, but weighs more be- has been used in over 900 experiM , v y ..vS'y 4 cause it is solid. ments, totalling about 100,000 hours, x The hormone used is indoleacetic to keep alive a large variety of oracid dissolved in lanum paste at gans from human beings and lower i the rate of one part acid to 500 animals. Dr. Alexis Carrel of the parts paste. About three applica- Rockefeller institute announced here tions, put on a week or ten days before the meeting of the American J Philosophical society. He added: apart, are required. The method has reached the tennis tournament at Weybridge, war-torn of The spirit China is akin to the spirit of revolutionary stage where it can be profitably apMrs. Moody, Christianity I think China will demonstrate to the world today arms England, recently. plied to many problems In the fields who has been attempting a come- are not necessarily supreme. These were the words of Eight Reverend Crusher Destroys Water of anatomy, physiology, biological back, had previously won the SurLogan H. Roots, bishop for 34 years of the Protestant Episcopal church chemistry, and pathology." Hyacinth in the South rey championship and the North or Hankow, as he arrived In the United States after retiring from his Among organs kept alive and London hard-couduties in China. title. New Orleans. Water hyacinth, working, for periods varying from two to thirty days, were hearts, one 6f the worst obstacles to navigation in waters of the South, can lungs, livers, kidneys, spleens and be successfully kept in control by a other glands; arteries, veins, new type of crusher tested out by nerves, muscles, Joints, and reprothe United States army engineer ductive organs. The hearts kept on beating, the glands continued to secorps, with headquarters here. I i The new boat, called the Kenny, crete, and other organs continued mounts a wide chain conveyor belt their functions in the circulating meI i y forward. This scoops up the floating dium. fJA-er , plants and carries them up and back to a hopper. From there they Vegetable Sheep From fall between heavy corrugated roll'U i !; ers which crush them flat The Colombian Mountain V. washed overboard pulped remains, through a pipe, sink to the bottom v--Y Washington. Vegetable sheep" I and decay. plants covered so thickly with y leaves that from long, 'V ' hi '' X ra r. .X X S ! v'3 a distance they look like grazing Longest Single Span sheep on the hillside are the newtAP est additions to botanical knowledge ' i X Girder Is in New York at the United States national herb; A arium here. They are described J - 3 V f New York. New York city's West through the agency of the SmithsoSide express highway, pride of a nian institution by Dr. S. F. Blake ' i ' "5 f J n trafllc-riddecity, boasts the longof the bureau of plant industry, De... : ' v' . . X : :r V , jest single-spaI ' plate girder In the partment of Agriculture. United States. The plants belong to the aster ;? Bridging the New York Central family, and come from the Santa v s. ' , , railroad tracks at West One Hun- Marta mountains in Colombia, ."'j , ' ' ' . . ' . V , dred and Sixtieth street, a girder 190 South America. The only vegeta1 2 Inches long overall and 13 ble sheep feet hitherto known were .':r '?! feet 1A Inches between supports from New Zealand. Another massive the 1 ? from tiro A carries streamlined strangely shaped plant i t .f r t k highway. It was fabricated in two Santa Marta mountains Is known as f - 4 equal lengths to the monk plant; at a little distpproximately Fascist leaders and Swedish officials participated in the launching of the worlds workers. meet railroad loading requirements tance, especially through a light Sliipvard largest liner "Stockholm, at Moufalcone, Italy, recently. and shipping clearances and to fa- fog, a group of them looks like an motorship, the Swcdish-Ainericaof cilitate handling. robed priests. assembly army interested. Lift? Could You Spare Him . odd-looki- si X s Bishop Praises Chinas Spirit g polli-nizati- I f J- u V. . growth-promotin- K- u K aruftfrnni it ... rt Worlds Largest Motorship Launched r . ill " . A La hi t r, white-wooll- - Tt j n 1 - ,t - n V fit ! a A. - The most imporWASHINGTON. tant news story In Washington and the throughout Relief country now is the use of relief funds Politics for political purposes. It is not only the most important news at this time, but has been the most important and will continue to be the most important for weeks to come. This is so because the amount of money involved is vast and the number of votes possible to be influenced by that money is so great. The stakes are high and the unscrupulous are going to play for them to the limit of their capacity. I think that perhaps the corruption of the Harding administration with its shameful oil scandal was more sensational, but surely no one condones the present situation any more than the scandals of the earlier malfeasance of office holders. In the Harding oil affair, there was perhaps 5 per cent as much money involved. Few, if any, votes of private citizens were at stake; certainly, no votes of persons who through no fault of their own found themselves destitute. It was the- - late Thomas Walsh, Montana Democratic senator, who conducted the earnest fight to purge the country of the crooks at that time. And now that the senate again has taken notice of the conditions, one cannot help but wonder w'hether of there will be the same high-typ- e statesmanship displayed, the same courage shown by some Republican or Democratic senator. For the sake of the country, I hope that no stone. will be left unturned by the senate investigation which, though ordered belatedly and after an irritable reaction from the country, nevertheless was ordered by the senate. The senate deserves no credit for having moved to expose the condition which Senator Wheeler of Montana described as playing politics with human misery." It had three chances to show its courage and its statesmanship before it would take hold of what many recognized as a political firebrand. It ran from those opportunities in the most cowardly fashion, under the lash of New Deal leaders in the senate. On three occasions, I repeat, the senate had a chance to assert control over the $5,000,000,000 borrowing-spendinglendin- g bill and prevent, to some extent, the further use of taxpayers money for electioneering purposes. And, I repeat, each time the vote was against inclusion of preventative clauses in that appropriation measure. So, none can say the credit should go to the senate even though now it promises to uncover facts which anyone, with an eye half open, knows exist. There can be no credit to the administration because President Roosevelt spoke not a word in behalf of use of funds for relief and for the removal of politics. Indeed, he praised his relief administrator, Harry Hopkins, for publicly backing Representative Wearin, the New Deal candidate for the senate nomination in Iowa. Mr. Wearin was well licked by Senator Gillette, an e Democrat. Nor did the President tell the senate publicly that he favored a curb on the use of the money. Quite the contrary. Whether the President urged them to do so or not, his board of strategy (the new name for the brain trust) put the steam on and made enough senators vote against the amendments to curb politics to insure defeat. They even forced Senator Barkley of Kentucky to take the floor in favor of the use of money in any way the relief overseers want to use it and Senator Barkley is seeking renomination in his native Kentucky. So, no credit for the move to draw back the curtain can possibly be given to the White House or any of the Presidents advisors or strategists. old-lin- ,t atorial ears must have burned to Li crisp. Anyway, it brought actio-afor that the country ought to thankful. lt might be well to review the sei ate action when it ran away froi an honest job on the relief appropr ation. First, there was the ament ment by Senator Hatch, Demoera New Mexico, which was to prevc- use of relief funds for political puL poses by the simple expedient j dismissal for the official who ha control over such funds; seeom D there was the amendment by Sea$ tor Lodge, Massachusetts Re pub' can, which would have required distribution of the relief funds i .atim the basis of the number of unei:Mn' E ployed In each state and whict HILE thereby, would have prevented u tleSb of vast sums in some states whe v the political battle might be gob an j against the candidate with a Net rageI Deal blessing, whether the opponent pf be an old line Democrat or a R- Shangl publican; third, there was tf: 01 u U amendment by Senator Rush Ho:;rS Democrat, of West Virginia, "whit throUj merely proposed to make all feder, relief officials responsive to civ accord service laws insofar as political a ements tivity was concerned, and fourt" there was the amendment by Se ator Austin, Republican, VermocJB govei which would have made it unlawf aaintair for any person whose compensatii!, ay se comes from relief funds to solic. c or authorize the solicitation of, fun A one t of as contributions to any politic -ational party. Well, as I said, the senate away from them and it seems 3. me that any senator who votr5JD ,c against those amendments has ?es pa!ntl pretty difficult Job to explain vote. As much as I admire SenatAy on Barkley, the basis of his arguing'11 was so sour that it smelled to hij ;er heaven. The Kentuckian told fl"reacke!, UP' senate that the amendments wou: tlietrate of all senators and give destroy political power into the hands u a down: whi-- a'i ride state political machines could use that power against sens jetty ir Senat es, am tors seeking Barkley is being challenged for n nomination in his state and, I t pose, the matter strikes right clo.jHongke rer front home with him, uj Whether senators who vob;s now stal against those amendments so l:(j jjes tended or not, what they have don crov when the picture Is examined in i..; tortu unbiased fashion, is to put the whc'jj Roosevelt administration in a ri.afnnurn( ulous position. It was their acti -- 0 are be th . .. which makes the record show iu(l QI6 on . the whole administration is wlliJi (Cgeier in run relief; riot to let politics toddli is against a fair and equitable t sometir location of money among the stat fl in accordance with the number 7 unemployed who must be fed. nd V t n-t- a r e d 1 nee As to the phase of conditio the word see home, through to WaiTjr The oiks ington that a go t wiU SQ( fBack Home many persons w are seeking hou;"1 Fl n or senate nominations against Nr'. a,n Deal aspirants are finding stro;J1)ns whj WPA organizations against thf;;ecomme oy G.e and in favor of the New Deal can of full tt; Ptent; the And Import date. e 0 strength comes to mind quid when one thinks what a hungry p "gpo son will give up in order to ha emer "O food. Senator Tydings of Maryland with Ch 5 the sponsor of the move to cle by wt w coast: up the mess in relief. Of couri Senator Tydings, while a staun a treaty Democrat, seldom has done arjtwoyea hs. ranee, re thing to cause the New Dealers on the contrary, he ideographic back F 4 piness; marked for liquidation long, lo oral outle rh ago. It is much better that an :.i standing Democrat should have pi signed to ha- Ninety-- s posed the investigation than had the proposal come from a Feigners f int3 publican. Had a Republican thi iirient, 'ruugnt o: duced the resolution, the would have been called politic By 1935 a been 7 was v; purely. But it would have move calculated to demonstrate Fdlionj. if sot genuineness of the New Deal h 4 amazing would r center lithe Bum Roosevelt Aboulevai brought up the proposition. I' There is a great opportunity Shanghai this new senate committee to serje BuilUin the country welL It can, and Elw :iag build go into every report its investij ; tors obtain to learn to what ev--- louses, taxpayers money is being employot xe conv to influence elections. It has an handc: to faring ai standing piece upon which Mr. oads, ma at the very start Did not kins horn into the Iowa Frimar And everywhere there was the QUI reiga ca, tion whether the WPA and other Chinese ' lief workers in Iowa would not daptable announcement (o strue the Hopkins behalf of Mr. Wearin as an nations der for them to support the sai a man. g,, But more Important than ,.jrls h;jv it -! Hopkins, this investigatione cum seriously made can point of and dangcf ilt mendous fallacy s & ii,e aver lief being administered from sa Shangha ington instead of from the. and the counties where the tnot t0 lMr() is spent. If the country la f's usoi fully aware of true conditions, believe there will be change in tm di(Ter -- 100-pe- No credit for bringing the situation to the attention of the country can go to the n Uodged in House house of repre. sentatives. It did not even consider any restrictions on the use of the money when the bill was up for passage there. The leadership in the house is controlled by Mr. Roosevelt, but even then it was surprising to see such upstanding, square-shootinmen like Speaker Bankhead and Majority Leader Rayburn of Texas sidle around the hot spot. Sam Rayburn is one of the really splendid men in the house of representatives, but he dodged on this thing and it is not commendable. Then, where must credit be given? Why did the senate finally take the bit in its teeth and set machinery in motion for putting out the fire before adjournment? The answer is that the people back home," and that means largely in smaller towns and In the country, finally caught up with the fact that they are being victimized. They let their feelings become known, and with them nearly every newspaper in the country criticized tire senate until the sen- g and :ished in ia gav ; g h-s f |
