Evening Star Newspaper, June 19, 1931, Page 25

PICCARD FORESEES | HIGH SPEED ALOFT Tells Belgian Gathering 400} Miles an Hour Will Be Stratosphere Rate. By the Associated Press. BRUSSELS, Belgium, June 19.—A speed of 400 miles an hour through the stratosphere by commercial passenger- freight airplanes, within the not too distant future, was predicted tonight by Prof. August Piccard at an academic meeting in his honor. Those in the assembly included King Albert of the Belgians, Queen Elizabeth and high government and scholnstlcl officials. | Mme. Piccard, who was seated with her family in & box near to that occupied by tke royal family, wept with emotion. at the ovation given her husband, who recently ascended more than 50,000 feet from the ground in a balloon. ““One positive result of our experience, at least, was attained,” Prof. Piccard said “Namely, it proved that traveling in a high altitude, wher® 400 miles an | hour can be attained with airplanes | rroperly equipped with compressors and airtight cabins for passengers, is without danger. Stratosphere Not Dangerous “Constructors contemplating inter- continental air travel, can safely push | on their work in this direction and take it for granted that traveling through the stratosphere is not danger- ous. Mankind can live in the irrespir- able layers of the earth's atmosphere. They may rest confident of it. “For knowledge of this fact, all im- portant to ths future, they are indebted | to the Belgian National Fund for Scien- tific Research, which rendered the re- search possible.” Piccard said his “raid he stratosphere” had allowed many vations concerning cosmic rays. osmic rays so far were generally | believed to emanate from distant stars, but it seems now they come probably irom gaseous clouds that may be cradles | of new worlds coming into existence,” he said. Conductibility Changing. “We have come to this conclusion be- cause of the fact that cosmic rays’ con- | ductibility is changing in different layers of earthen atmosphere, and because | primitive cosmic rays arriving at the cuter borders of our atmosphere are daxprived of so-call:d secondary rays that may be compared as emanating 1rom radio-active earthen substances. “These secondary rays would doubt- 1'ss be present if the cosmic rays had cmanated from a solid body, as they ore the result of the primitive cosmic rays’ passage through the equivalent of 2 yards of rock or 10 yards of water.” i CANADA-TO-MEXICO FLIGHT MARK BROKEN| World War Ace in Crusaders’ Flane Nearly Hour Under Record of Col. Turner. By the Associated Press. AGUA CALIENTE, Lower California, June 19.—James Goodwin Hall, New York flyer and World War ace, today held an unofficial non-stop mark of 7 hours 48 minutes 31 seconds for a flight between Vancouver, British Columbia, and Agua Caliente. The flight, made yesterday in a Lock- heed-Altair monoplane, betters the rec- ord of 9 hours 14 minutes, established last October by Col. Roscoe Turner, but Hall's mark was unofficial because he carried no barograph. Hall, whose ship bears the crest of the Crusaders, a national organization op- posed to prohibition. had a wet flight. He hopped off at Vancouver from a muddy field, and was in rain 500 miles | of the 1,300-mile trip. | He plans ults on both the West- | East and East-West transcontinental | and other distance records, an an- nouncement from the Los Angeles office | of the Crusaders said. ‘The announced object of his flights is “to draw public attention to the evils of prohibition.” | W. C. T. U. 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