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Show MYSTERY SOLVED BY COMMON SENSE WASHINGTON, May 2" Application Applica-tion of science and common sense have lifted out of the supernatural the "strange lights" on Brown mountain which for some years have agitated residents of several counties in North Carolina, the Unltod States geological survey announced today r;. B. Mansfield, Mans-field, geologist detailed to study the phenomenon at the request of the North Carolina senate, has returned after two weeks' Investigation, with the conclusion that the lights common "every night ' are given unusual red rind yellow tints by air currents. Automobile headlights. Mr. Hans-field Hans-field found, provide 47 per cent of the lights, locomotive headlights 3.? per cent, building or street Ugh'.-. 1 0 per cent and brush fires ihe remaining 10 per cent. oo |