Evening Star Newspaper, April 19, 1935, Page 25

TESTS T0 PRECEDE STRATOSPHERE TRY £5,000-Foot Levels to Show Ca- pacities of New Instru- ments Adopted. A test balloon flight to the lub-[ stratosphere, probably to an altitude | next week to try out several new in- slrumenu for stratospheric explora- tion, it was announced here today by the National Geographic Society. The flight, on a day yet to be an- nounced, will be made from Scott Field, near East St. Louis, Ill, Army Air Corps airship post, in a balloon of 80,000-cubic-foot capacity. If the instruments prove satisfactory, the society announced, they will be car- ried into the stratosphere during the National Geographic-Air Corps flight in the Explorer II next June from the Black Hills of South Dakota. Tre instruments include an ap- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, ductivity of the alr, and an assembly of four electrically operated ther- mometers for recording superheat. Electrical conductivity of the air in the stratosphere never has been measured in America and only & few measurements have been made any- where to & height as great as 10 miles above sea level. The electrical conductivity appa- ratus was designed by Dr. O. H. Gish, department of terrestrial magnetism of the Carnegie Institution of Wash- ington, who will install it in the small balloon for next week's test and in the giant stratosphere belloon if it ARBOR DAY PROGRAM HONORS MRS. LOGAN Tree Planting Is Scheduled by |to Woman’s Guild as Tribute to General’s Widow. The Woman's Guild of American University observed Arbor day yester- day by planting a tree on the cam- pus in honor of the late Mrs. John A. Logan, mother of Mrs. Mary Logan D. C, FRIDAY, famous Civil War general, after whom Logan Circle here is named. Mrs. Delos A. Kinsman was sched- uled to preside at the ceremony this lflernoen and Mrs. W. 8. Dewhirst was speak. The arrangements were in charge of Mrs, W, E. Emley, Students and faculty in overalls ob- served the day by planting trees, shrubs and vines over the campus and by clearing out underbrush through the heavily wooden section. More births and marriages and fewer deaths last year indicate Scot- APRIL 19, 1935. OBSCENE LITERATURE BRINGS YEAR SENTENCE Man Also Is Fined $1,100 for Distributing Cards Among High School Girls. The six-month search by police for the man who has been distributing obscene literature among high school girls of the city was ended yesterday with the arrest of George F. Benkert, was sentenced in Police Court to pay fines totaling $1,100 and serve a year in jail. Failure to pay the fine would re- sult in additional jail terms totaling a year and three months, Judge Ralph Given ruled in- passing sentence on six specific cases against Benkert, Benkert was arrested in the South- east section yesterday by Capt. Joseph C. Morgan, fifth precinct, and De- tective Watson Salkeld after they ob- served him dropping cards in front of girls on their way home from school. Benkert, who is well educated, told police he formerly was an architect and eleslmr of shells for the Govern- ment, At one time there was a speclal de- tall which attempted over a long pe- riod to catch a man who had been dropping similar cards in front of high school girls in various sections. e Card 25 Years Late. PHILADELPHIA (P)—Miss Mar- garet K. Loos thought she received an Easter card early. Then she discovered it was posi- marked March 25, 1919, and had been mailed by a playmate, Dorothy Smith, proves successful. Tucker of this city and wife of the |land's population is increasing. of 25000 feet, will be made early iparatus for messuring electrical con- 52, 1700 block of Thirty-fifth street. He Thousands of pairs - —hundreds of styles. 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