Evening Star Newspaper, April 26, 1929, Page 4

4 WEATHER CYCLE ~ RULE DISCUSSED Far More Rigid System 01' Analysis Needed, Dr. * Marvin Says. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. The teality of alleged weather cycles | may be established by applying a far | more rigid system of mathematical | analysis to observations, Dr. Charles F. | Maivin, direcior of the Weather Bu- reau, told the meteorological section of the erican Geophysical Union this mornig: Such cycles are the basis of most systems .of long-range weather fore- casting, which are in bad repute with the . Weather Bureau. All the alleged cycles which he has examined, Dr. Marvin said, can be admitted to exist only by extremely loose interpretation of the figures. Admitting that such cycles may exist, he called upon math- ematicians to devise new methods of analysis of weather data. | Dr. Marvin himself offered one | method applicable in some cases which | be had used in analyzing weather data | T treaty guns and four anti-aircraft guns. Photo shows the U. he U. S. S. Pensacola, a new cruiser with a name old and histor! yesterday. The Pensacola, which is the Navy's latest cruiser and the second to be bailt since the baitleships | Indiana and South Carclina, one-third completed, were scrapped in accordance with the Washington naval disarmament is 585 feet over all and his a_65'4:foot beam. She is a quadruple screw ship, with oil burners and turbines, which will give her a maximum speed of 32'; knots. She will carry a crew of 530 officers and men, and will mount 10 8-inch Her sister ship, the Salt Lake City, w: N. J. S. Pensacola in the East River, New York, after leaving the ways of Brooklyn Navy Yard | alter being christened by Mrs. Josephine Knowles Seligman of New Jersey, a native of Pensacola, Fla., as 5,000 looked on. | THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D€, PRIDAY, A PRIL 26, 1929. launch: SECOND U. S. CRUISER UNDER WASHINGTON TREATY LAUNCHED ic, was launched at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, | ed at Camde ., in January. —P. & A. Photo. lis his no matter what happens. He 'HOOVER IS REPORTED SEEKING |President Understood” to Want Justice’s Services as Chairman. |Former Attorney General Has | Advocated Lawful En- forcement. President Hoover is understood to be seeking the services of Assoclate Jus- ice Harlan Fiske Stone of the United | States Supreme Court as chairman ol his National Law Enforcement Com- mission. Information in some quarters is tha: the former Attorney General is re luctant to retire from the highest cour. to undertake the task which the Chiet Executive has announced will be in- trusted to the commission—that of ex- | haustively studying the whole Federal judicial and enforcement machinery and submitting sgcommendations for its | reorganization. Friends Urge Acceptance. Some friends of Justice Stone have been urging him to accept STONE FOR LAW COMMISSION _JUSTICE_HARLAN FISKE STONE. the very task which the President now would have a commission of nationally sphere of human action, which he would | Jeave untrammeled by legal restriction. | Justice Stone, as professor and Attor- ney General, also strongly advocated in law enforcement that lawful ends should be sought by lawful means, a precept to which President Hoover has sub- | scribed heartily in his public addresses |and in some statements es President dealing with enforcement of the pro- hibition laws. | b SRR 5 Blamed for Failures. In a generation women have cut { down their clothes from 18 to 4 yards | apiece, and have caused 13 out of 20 | woolen mills to fail, according to fig- |ures in a current magazine, | tingly. TWO ARE SENTENCED. e By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., April 25, ~Two colored men who pleaded gujity to a charge of recelying stolen goods yesterdiy wefe sentenced to three and one-half years in the penitentiary each by Circuit Court Judge Joseph C. Mat- The men, Robert Gibson and Stan- |ley Banks, were accused of stealing a safe containing about $400 worth of checks from the Laurel station of the Baltimore & Ohio Ratiroad. A similar charge against Elsworth Gibson was nolle prossed | The “Pay Streak” HE richest “streaks” are indicated ORATORY WINNER IS SWAMPE the ap- | over 60 years in an area of approxi- They believe the work of known men undertake. mately, 18,000 square miles centering in ‘Washington. his showed an appar- ently.regular decline in-rainfall and in- crease in temperature, which he was not able o connect with any physical causes. While he might have made some sccurate predictions from his curves, Dr. Marvin said, he had not done so because he was not sure that they were valid. It would be necessary, he said, tof have figures for at least a century to reach any conclusions. Apparently pro- gressive cHanges, it was pointed out, might not fit into cycles at all because of the effect on the weather of such temporary f actors as- deforestation, drainage and bullding of cities. Reports Progress of Study. Progress in the study of the effect of changes in solar radietion on weather ‘was reported by Prof. H. H. Kimball of the Weather Bureau. If Washington, | he said, had a continually cloudless sky the temperature through the year would approach that of a Southern desert. If it was continually covered with snow the average temperature would be 'about 15 degrees lower. Washington, he point- ed out, never has known below-zero ‘weather without snow on the ground. ‘Weather Bureau measurements, he #aid, have shown that the sun is pour. ing on the earth approximately 33,000, Winning oratorical contests right, bu® it's pretty har | of realization. Then, too, victory of | that sort is not the sort of thing to have if one 1s troubled with insomnia. James Butsch, the St. John’s College boy who yesterday won The Star's| championship in the Sixth National | Oratorical Contest, vouched for both | these statements today when & reporter called him out of his class at school to ask him how 1t feels to be responsible | for the forensic honor of the whole | District of Columbia and the nearby counties of Maryland and Virginia. In the first place, Butsch hadn't slept | much last nigit, and the reason he had | is all not was because be consciously and | subconsciously spent most of the night | 000 horsepower hours of energy per square mile. | g ‘This has sbeen the case throughout history, but the earth-has been able to conserve only a small part of this in the form of coal and oil. If the day comes when coal and oil are nearly exhausted, ‘Prof. Kimball said, it is probable- that’ engineers will find some way* of ' harnessing this solar energy. directly, although no way of doing this is now in sight. - N “);llow ht.he :t‘l.fiu;u h-npemb wthlve ml‘n atmosphere a subject of specula- tion, said Prof. Willlam J. Humphreys of the Weather Bureau, He. explained the originof the earth as due to some larger star passing within a few hun- dred million miles of the sun approxi- mately 4,000,000,000: years. ago and by its_gravitational pull tearing a a part ol the: sunis:substance. 'This sald, was gaseous at the time and doubtless included all the elements now found on earth. They are supposed ;o have “;.:ndensed nllnmosc at once, orming present planets. It is possible, he said, that in this process of condensation there was an extra supply of oxygen and other gases such as make ug:the atmosphere which had no chance * mbine with other element they ed in an atmos- phere ithe ace of the ‘new pianet, On the othef hand, he pointed out, there may have'been no air at first since everything may have been in solid combinations. Through billions of years ths may have escaped from their interior prisons through volcanoes, fumeroles and éracks in the earth’s surface, forming the air. It is conceivable, he said, that life may have started in the form of simple plants without any oxygen. Once the start was made the plants would begin transforming carbon dioxide into oxygen, paving the way for higher forms of life. Thus far no oxygen has been found coming from volcanoes and hot springs. Even the water, Prof.. Humphreys said, may not have been present from the be- ginning outside the earth’s crust, but have been created from exygen and hydrogen in the interior, .escaping to the surface through cragks. It 4s doubt- ful, he said, that all the water which now comes from hot springs seeped down originally from the surface. Prof. Humphreys ajso pointed- to. the possibility of the elemenis which make up the atmosphere being formed in empty space between the stars and be- ing added to the planetary atmospheres, a process indicated by measurements of cosmic rays, which are presumably arr-wd in the process of atomic forma- on. Stll a Mystery. The presence of an element so heavy | as oxygen in the upper atmosphere, he said, is a mystery, but it may not be the same form of oxygen as that found near the surface. Oxygen at great heights, sald Prof. Humphreys, appar- | Concrete Delivered —in our TRANSIT MIXER TRUCKS—speeds up your work and saves you all your mixer troubles. ABetier ‘Concrete for Less Money Maloney Paving Co., Inc. he |telephone in his home, which rang trying to convince himself that he | wasn't dreaming or something. . Entry in the national finals in the | ‘Washington = Auditorium before 6,000 persons; three months’ travel through some of the most interesting country in the world; $200 on its way to his pockets—these, together with thoughts of the battle he’d been through; the longest. wait he ever encountered while ballots *were beéing cast by the five judges, the doubts and the hopes, whirled through Butsch’s head with such a humming last night that he just | couldn't sleep. Proof of His Vietory. This morning there was the copy of yesterday’s Star, still prociaiming from its front page that he had won; t;e cessantly lutl e"n”lll‘ to br‘l;m hmucr‘t):i gratulations from all over town, s up at_school his classmates ineed mmmkmm; ¥ . Ym’r:ly, after he 'had made his supreme effort to win the contest in the concluding unit of the finals, held in the auditorium of the National Museum, Butsch and a group of his classmates wandered back to The Star sffice. There they waited, impatient and nervous. . At last thie ‘word got about. It | was near press time and somebody told Butsch, sadly of course, that he'd be| ently is to life, forming the ma#-rial for the blanket of ozone which is delicately balanced to admit just the right amounts of the solar spectrum. If it was absent, he §»id, living things certainly would be nded and prob- ably burned up by the flood of ultra- violet light. If it was a little greater than it:is most animals would die of rickets and probably plant life would be_impossible. ‘The ‘theory that the moon is made of material ri] from the earth ‘where the Pacific Ocean.now lies was denied by Dr. Henry S. Washington be- fore the volcanology section. Reporting on an _extensive study of volcanic is- lands, he declared that the Pacific was the youngest of the oceans, because the submarine floor has not settled down to stability as 1f would in old age. age. Th~ area covered by the Pacific ‘would, roughly, hold the volume of the moon. Sclentists have carried the the- ory further by showing that the Euro- n and Ameri continents may | “The Constitution and the Individual ve been joined and merely drifted apart after the moon was formed. Y -l Yeette OLLOWED nests of Gorton's Ready-to- Fry, brushed with beaten egg yolk, browned in the oven, then filled with hot buttered peas and scrved with cream savee! """ "From the new Gorton Recipe Book—Free THE ORIGINAL GORTON-PEW FISHERIES Glincaster, Mass, The more you know abou see in Physical Culture Shoes Be as stylish as you wan “touchy” or mot, there's comf The newest fas of unusual beauty of the day's routine 4 612 13th Street e e O ] Edmonston & Co. 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Now about the champion's speech on 8t. John’s College—it's a secondary school of high school rating despite its titie—took hold of the contest as a| school proposition. Every student wrote a speech and a series of eliminations were held. It was after the second semester of the year began that the class contests were to be heid. Butsch wrote his speech two nights before the class was to be held. He used to sing in the St. Patrick's Church Boys’ Choir and to- day he is widely known about town for his rendition of popular songs, so he was vocally prepared and was used to facing audiences. Briefly, he won the clnssi contest. He took heart at that, looked at his speech, impressed it again in his mind and won the school finals. Next came the group phase of the contest in the | private and parochial school district, and he won that up at Georgetown University. All that was left then was | the private and parochial district finals, and he took that in a tight fight at! Gonzaga when he competed with Gon- | zaga’s own spokesman and the repre- sentative of the Devitt Preparatory School. ‘And that, by the way, is re- garded by Butsch today as the toughest battle he had. The story of The Star gl.‘::‘u is known, and so Butsch is cham- n. In his preparation for the contest and in his development of his oratory Butsch had the guidance and counsel of Brother Martin, principal of the school, who took over its administration for the. first time only in September. Brother Martin came here from Cum. berland, where he headed the Chris- tian Brothers School, Today the cham- plon orator wants it known he appre- clates the kindness and counsel of Brother Martin. Now about the trip to South America. 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Butsch was unable to say this morn- ing what he was most anxlous to see on the tour. He had not gotten so “in- timate” with it in his thoughts, but he is impressed now with its great value as a whole. He believes it invaluable to his educational life, coming as it does just before he enters college. But it's the victory now that stands 4 on the sense | The orator stammered, not at all the | in his mind, rather than its rewards, | which hardly have had time to be re- garded by him as his own. He’s looking forward to the national finals, and his speech in an attempt to give this section a national champion. LIGHTNING HITS PASTOR WHILE AT PRAYER SERVICE Found Semi-Conscious After Bolt Strikes Baptist Church. Few Burns Sustained. By the Associated Press. NEWBURGH, N. Y., April 26 —Struck by lightning while conducting a prayer meeting last night, Rev. Ralph N, Al- len, pastor of the First Baptist Church here, was alive today. Mr. Allen was about to deliver an address at the prayer meet! when the lightning struck and all lights in the room were extinguished, except one above the pastor's head. When mem- bers of the congregation recovered from their shock they found Mr. Allen stand-~ ing rigidly behind the reading desk in | & semi-conscious condition. Except for two burns on his fore head, physicians today said, the minis- | ter's condition was not serious, CUBA TO DEPORT FOUR. American Citizens Charged With Being Undesirables. HAVANA, April 26 (#).—Pour United States citizens were today ordered de- rted from Cuba under an order of the nterior department, which charged them with being undesirables. The men are Ben Wilson, Joseph A. Michel, Mike Ward and Charles Predericks. All give their homes in New York. being held aboard the transport prison ship Maximo Gomez. ——— Norwegian Aviatrix Sails, SWANSEA, England, April 26 (#).— Miss Dagnya Berger, fair-haired Nor- weglan aviatrix, sailed aboard the Norweglan steamer Stranna for Amer- lca today with the hope of attempting a flight across the Atlantic in August. government | | the commission will be the most im- | | portant of its kind in the history of the Nation and that the recommendations made should constitute an enduring monument to its authors. President Hoover regards the law en- forcement problem as far transcending any now before the country. In his re- cent New York address, dealing wholly with this subject, he said that “such a commission can perform the greatest of services in our generation.” Efforts of the President to have Jus- tice Stone form the arch around which the commission personnel will be built are belleved to account in the main for | the unexpected delay in announcing the members. Soon after inauguration it was stated at the White House that the names of the members probably would | | be announced within 10 days or two weeks. No explanation has been forth- coming since as to the cause of the | delay. Close Friend of Hoover. Justice Stone, who 1s the youngest member of the Supreme Court—he Is 57 years old—long has been a close friend of Mr. Hoover; was his neighbor for years in the S street residential sec- tion, and is a member of the “medicine ball cabinet.” Upon his return from his good will tour to South America, Mr. Hoover conferred often with the associate jus- tice and also had him as a guest on fishing trips in Florida during the pre- inauguration period. Unquestionably Justice Stone has been one of his most trusted advisers in the study he has | been making of law enforcement prob- lems. 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