Boworra Jada.
Bellefonte, Pa., February 14, 1930.
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[BIG ROCKET POISED
FOR SKYWARD TRIP
finventor Hopes Eventually
to Reach Moon.
Aver, Mass.—The big prother of the
gky rocket with which you used to cel
ebrate Fourth of July is poised here
gor one of the most extraordinary
flights in history. :
‘Some time in the not far distant
future, if all goes well, this 12-foot
1 projectile will rise with incredi-
speed from a tower at Camp Dev-
on the outskirts of this quiet little
n and nose its way skyward, seek-
the secrets of altitudes never
ched by a man-made device.
"he rocket’s noisy zoom into space
fl mark the latest step in a series
unusual experiments started twenty
rs ago by Dr. Robert H. Goddard.
rk university scientist.
Popular fancy has drawn a seem
gly indelible halo of romance around
Professor Goddard's rocket during the
years that he has busied himself with
ig work in the rather prosaic atmos:
phere of a laboratory.
To Record Air Data.
Even his insistent declarations that
fie has no lunar aspirations have failed
‘to destroy the general belief that he
opes eventually to send his strange
‘contraption to the moon.
Those who toy most fervently with
this fascinating theory like to think
at there will be a man inside the
ge steel tube as it speeds over the
£20,000 or more miles to its fanciful
Wesfination. No one appears to have
Wwiven much thought to the rather knot
problem of how the man would get
ack to earth, once he had completed
dis journey.
But Professor Goddard protests that
the paramount object of his experi
entation at present is to obtain ac
curate data on meteorological condi-
Hons at various altitudes.
His big rocket is equipped with nu
merous devices for recording such in
gormation— devices which are intend
ed to return to earth with the aid of
mp parachute attachment.
Test Rocket Noisy.
Doctor Goddard has kept secret the
exact method by which his projectile
§s propelled. It is understood, how-
ever, that the general idea is for a
geries of timed explosions to speed
the rocket on its way, with a fresh
blast expediting its flight as the pow:
er begins fo wane.
At Auburn, near ‘Worcester, several
months ago, Doctor Goddard shot a
rocket skyward. The scientist ap:
peared well pleased with the ouicome
of the test flight but the attendant
explosions alarmed residents of the
countryside.
It was suggested by the fearful
that recording devices carried by the
rocket, in returning to earth, might
smite a native. Doctor Goddard ar-
gued that the object which returned
to the ground invariably landed only
a short distance from the point from
which the rocket had been oesed.
Finally he compromised by transfer-
ring his experimental staticn to Camp
Devens.
Company Plans to Get
Lands for English Lads
Sydney, N. 8. W.—A company is be-
ing formed to provide a scheme of
fand settlement for lads coming from
England.
It will have the title, Little Brother
Farm Settlement Ltd, and the pros-
pectus has been issued. The com-
pany will acquire land within a rea.
sonable distance of markets, suitable
as a group settlement for intense cul-
ture, upon which Little Brothers who
have been in the Commonwealth for
not less than three years, and are in
possession of a banking eredit of not
less than £200, may be settled under
conditions to be determined by the
poard of management.
The scheme provides for the market:
ing of vegetables, poultry, pigs, etc.
Land acquired by gift or parchase will
be divided into suitable farmlets up to
10 acres. No dividends exceeding 6
per cent will be paid.
Seattle Stores Insects
on Ice During Winter
Seattle, Wash, — Putting insects
away on ice is a new use of the mu
nicipal cold storage plant here. To '
combat grasshoppers, caterpillars.
erickets and moths, which annually
.eause heavy losses to farms and or
. ¢hards in the Northwest, wantes, gi
. ant grasshoppers from interior China.
‘have been imported and are held dor
.muant until spring, when they may be
shipped and distributed in infected
areas.
"The mantis increases in size during
its eating period of life until the aor-
mal growth of about four inches long
is attained. Then it lays eggs and
dies.
Police to Use Dictaphone
to Block Cruelty Plea
Budapest. — In order to forestall
¢laims of ill treatment by prisoners
who, on being brought to trial after
confessing their crimes to the police
claim that confessions were extorted
from them. the examination rooms of
a number of Hungarian jails are to
pe equipped with dictaphones.
AMERICAN MAP
| President Hoover Wants to
Complete Big Task in
Eighteen Years.
Washington. — Recognizing the im-
portance of accurate maps to engi-
neers, President Hoover has an-
nounced his intention of asking con-
gress for funds to speed to completion
the topographic mapping of the United
States. Under his plan the job will be
completed in eighteen years, instead
of eighty-eight years, the time re-
quired if the work proceeds no faster
than its present rate.
So far the undertaking is less than
half done, and engineers have been
urging the government to push the
work more rapidly. Two agencies will
carry out the project. The coast and
geodetic survey will establish a sys-
tem of triangulation controls. The
geological survey, using this system as
a framework, will then proceed with
the topographical mapping of the
country.
Work of a Century.
In the last 100 years the coast and
geodetic survey has established a
complete system of triangulation sta-
tions along the Atlantic, the Gulf and
the Pacific coasts.
tend also up navigable rivers to the
head of tidewater. In addition, thou-
sands of stations have been estab-
lished in other parts of the country
and along the border between the
United States and Canada. The work,
however, has been proceeding slowly
and a vast area still remains to he
covered.
In 1900 the coast and geodetic sur
sey had completed only 7,000 miles
of arc of the first order. Now, the
total is 26,000 miles, and the engi-
neers are adding to this at the rate
of about 1,000 miles a year. The coast
and geodetic survey has been follow-
ing a plan which calls for arcs of first
and second order triangulation
throughout the country, the triangles
being so spaced that no place in the
country will be more than twenty-five
miles from a 4iriangulation station.
This will be brought about when 49,
000 miles of arcs are added to those
now existing. The intermediate areas
will be covered by third order trian
gulation, or by traverse surveys by
those who want to make detailed sur
veys. charts or maps.
Pick Central Point.
Thirty years ago a central point
was selected for making surveys and
charts in the United States and con-
tiguous waters. The station is known
as Meade's ranch and is located about
twelve miles north of Lucas, Kan. In
1912 the geodetic engineers of Canada
and Mexico also adopted this as their
initial station, so there is now a sin-
gle central or initial surveying
station for all of North America.
Its use will preclude discrepancies in
the charts and maps of territory close
to the borders of either of the adjoin
ing countries.
Throughout the 100 years of its ex
istence the coast and geodetic survey
has endeavored to mark its triangula-
lation stations in such a way that
there would be no difficulty in finding
them at any time in the future. It has
not always been successful for nature
and the works of man have destroyed
some of the markers. Campers and
others have occasionally taken them
up in the hope of finding buried treas-
ure nearby.
Blocks of stone or masses of concrete
were set up, often carrying the let
ters “U. 8. C. 8.” Few people kuew
just what the letters meant, or what
the markers were for. For the past
twenty years the survey has adopted
a plan of putting a properly inscribed
metal tablet into the stone or the con-
crete at each triangulation station.
This tablet tells the visitor that he
may learn the signification of the sta-
tion by writing to the director of the
survey at Washington, In thus taking
the public into its confidence the sur-
vey has saved many of its markers
from destruction.
Value to Industries.
“It is difficult to overestimate the
value of a good topegraphic survey
to the industries ‘of a nation,” says
Dr. \illiam W. Bowie, chief of geod-
esy in the coast-and geodetic survey.
“It makes no difference whether the
engineer is laying out a new highway,
erecting a hydroelectric plant, drain-
ing a swamp, extending canals from
an irrigation reserveir or controlling
/the flood waters of a river, he should
have an accurate topographic map
from which to scale distances and
! compute ‘slopes. Without such a map
he is working with insufficient data,
and his operations are likely to cost
him far more money than would be
expended had the topographic map
been available.
“The topographic map cannot be
made true to scale and have its vari-
ous topographic features placed in
their proper geographic positions un-
less the map is controlled by triangu-
lation.
“In the United States we have fo
many years suffered from the lack of
first order triangulation in our sur
veying, mapping and charting, but this
situation is greatly improved, and the
situation in this country in the near
future should be entirely satisfac
tory.”
The great arcs otf triangulation bear
nearly the same relation to charts.
maps and surveys that the steel
framework bears to the individual
parts of a building, such as the tloors.
walls, windows and elevator shafts.
WILL SPEED UP ii
Such stations ex-
‘Without the steel framework ¢he
building would not stand up; the
framework is needed to hold the vari-
ous parts of the building together,
and to co-ordinate those parts. Fink-
order triangulation has the SAL:
function in the topographical mappiry
| of the country.
Important Benefits.
The triangulation program will vield
important benefits to individual states
and other political subdivisions. For
it will enable thein to accurately _e-
termine the longitudes and latitude®
by which to locate their boundaries,
Many counties do not know their ox-
act boundaries or area.
A county in a southern state not
long ago wanted to float a loan with
New York bankers. When asked what
the area of the county was, its ofiicials
could not inform them, for the reascn
that it had not been accurately
mapped. So the New Yorkers had to
make a survey of their own before
they could make the required loan.
Completion of the system of triangula-
tion controls will remove such uncer-
tainties.
It will cost the coast and geodetic
survey about $4,500,000 to complete its
part of the work within the next tem
vears. -
If You Stutter Try
Using Your Left Hand
Los Angeles. Calif. —M-m-m-mayhe
you s-s-s-stutter b-b-hecause you use
your r-r-rright h-h-hand in-s-s-stead of
vour l-1-1-left.
Dr. Milton Metfessel, who is pro
fessor of psychology at the Univer-
sity of Southern California, has found
that left-handed persons who have
become accustomed to using their
right hand often stutter.
“If a person is physiologically lef
handed—that is, born to use the left
or because he has been forced to. the
mental workings of the patient may
be so disturbed as to make him stut-
ter.” said Doctor Metfessel today.
He added that some people are not
really aware that they are physio-
logically left-handed, though they
seem to use the right easily. He has
perfected tests which detect such
cases, since he first must make sure
whether or not a person has heen
born left-handed.
“Of course, all left-handed persons
do not stutter,” said the professor,
¢and if left-handedness is the cause
of their stuttering, it must be treated
carefully to prevent a worse condi-
tion.”
[taly to Send Planes
in Nonstop N. Y. Hop
Rome.—The Italian government 18
preparing to send a fleet of ten mili-
tary hydro-airplanes on a nonstop
flight from Italy to New York next
March. i a
Crews of the ten great Savoia-Mar-
cheti ships have been undergoing am
intensive training for the transatlantie
trip and several of them have under-
taken flights for 40 consecutive hours
over Lakes Garda and Barcciano.
The air ministry, which is to direct
che flight, has arranged for co-opera-
tion with the navy and scout ships
and destroyers will be stationed along
the route ready to assist in the event
of an emergency. Italo Balbo, air
minister, will command the flight in
person.
The project will constitute the 1930
cruise of Italy’s aerial navy. In 1928
the air forces carried out an extensive
flight over the western Mediterranean
sea and northern Africa. This year
the ships flew over the eastern Med-
iterranean and Black sea.
France in 5th Place
in Europe’s Population
Paris.—The government has pub-
lished statistics which show that
France, in 1789 the largest pation in
the western world, has fallen to fifth
place in Europe as a result of its de-
creased birth rate. In 1789 Krance
had 26,000,000 inhabitants; Russia, 25,
000,000 ; Austria, 18,000,000; England,
12,000,000, and Prussia, 6,000.000, At
present France has 40,000,000; Italy,
41,000,000; Japan, 60,000,000; Germany,
64.000,000; the British empire, 73,000,
000; Russia, 115,000,000, and the
United States, 118,000,000.
Wedding Cake Weighing
200 Pounds Has 360 Eggs
Buffalo, N. Y.—When Rose Ruddank
was married recently to Charles Far-
ber, her father, a baker, decided he'd
let some one else bake the wedding
cake and thus enjoy the occasion the
more. And its lucky for him he did.
Walter Cichocki, hired to do the job,
turned out a cake weighing more than
200 pounds. It required 92 pounds of
sugar, 36 pounds of butter, 360 eggs,
36 pounds of frosting sugar, and 26
pounds of flour.
Swerving From Right
Cause of Accidents
Boston.—Failure to keep on
the right side of the road when
the moterist’s view is obstructed
is the principal cause of auto
mobile accidents, at least in
Massachusetts. Out of a total
of 3,556 accident cases studied,
this factor prevailed in 1,084 in.
stances. Other causes were
listed as follows: Speeding.
069; drunken driving, 417; fail
ure to keep right side of road
when meeting vehicles, 408;
reckless driving. 365; unlicensed
driving. 232.
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Writer Gives Only First
Hand Account of Russian
Royal Tragedy.
New York.—Gleb Botkin, son of the
personal physician to the late Czar
Nicholas of Russia, has written for
the North American Review what he
describes as the only first-hand ac
count of the murder of the Russian
royal family at Ekaterinburg, on the
night of July 17, 1918, by a Bolshevik
firing squad.
Botkin’s story, he asserts, is the
eye-witness version of the massacre
told to him by the mysterious “Prin
cess Anastasia” whose arrival in
America two years ago created a sen-
sation, which was heightened by the
fact that she never gave public con
firmation to the claims made by her
friends that she was the youngest
daughter of the czar and the only
survivor of the massacre.
“I not merely believe her to be Anas:
tasia—1 know that she is,” declares
Botkin, whose childhood was spent as
a playmate of the czar's children, who
accompanied the royal family on the
first stage of its exile, and who, since
his arrival in America in 1922 has
made a livelihood as artist and au
thor. His father was among those
slain along with the czar, czarina,
Prince Dolgoroukoff, and the grand
duchesses.
Saw Czar Shot Through Head.
“She tells in detail of all the events
preceding the shooting on the night
of July 17, 1918,” he relates. “Her
last recognition is that she saw the
(‘ommisar Yourovsky shoot the em- |
peror through the head. She herself
hid behind her sister Olga. Then
she heard Olga scream and lost con-
sciousness.
“She came to herself in a peasant
cart, traveling along the highway with
She was |
{wo men and two women.
covered with wounds and for a long
time remained semi-conscious.
it was explained to her that the two
ing squad and accompanied the bodies
of the victims to the forest. They no-
ticed that Anastasia was alive and In
the night preceding the cremation of
the bodies, stole her and brought her
to their farm. From there, taking
along their mother and sister, they
started on the same night in a cart in
a southwestern direction. After
weeks of weary travel they reached
Rumania.
“There Anastasia married one ot
ner rescuers and gave birth to a son.
Soon afterward her husband, Tchai-
kowsky, was killed in the streets of
Bucharest. Anastasia’s son was taken
away from her and placed in an or-
phan asylum where he is said to have
died. Anastasia made her way to
Germany, where she wanted to find
her god-mother, Princess Irene of
Prussia. Arrived in Berlin, she
threw herself from a bridge In a fit
of despair, but was rescued by the
police. Since she refused to answer
a single question, she was placed in
an insane asylum. It was there that
she was recognized by Russian visitors
who had known her in childhood.
They obtained her release from the
asylum in 1922.”
At the instigation of his sister wuo
nad visited the young woman then
known as Madame Tchaikowsky in
Berlin, Botkin went abroad in 1928
and was instrumental in bringing
Anastasia to New York.
Leeds Oppose Her Fight for Fortune.
Here she was received as the guest
of Mrs. William B. Leeds, the former
Princess Xenia of Greece, a distant
cousin of the czar. But later, Botkin
charges in the North American Re-
view article, the Leeds took the side
of other distant relatives who were
claiming the considerable fortune left
by the czar In England, Germany and
Finland.
«They readily admitted her identity,”
ne says. “But somehow the policy of
the imperial family prevailed. Anas-
tagia was not to be officially acknowl-
edged.”
Anastasia left the Leeds’ Long Is-
and estate suddenly, spent a short
time in the tiny studio apartment of
John R. Colter, New York newspaper
man, then found haven for a year
with friends in Garden City, L. L,
relates Botkin. For the past year she
has been living with Miss Annie Burr
Jennings, a member of an old New
York family, in her suburban home.
Trick Watches Latest
Fad Among Parisians
Paris.—European watch manu:
tacturers have gone modern and
this year's watches look like
anything but a watch.
The smartest boulevard shops
show watches with only four
hours indicated—3, 6, 9, and 12.
You have to guess the rest.
There is another without hands.
When you want to know what
time it is you press a button and
the dial lights up with lighted
hands pointing directly to the
hour.
‘There are watches hidden in
cufflinks, in women’s necklaces,
and in a leather strap no wider
than a shoestring. It seems.
however, the smaller they are
the higher they come.
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