Evening Star Newspaper, December 12, 1935, Page 12

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Orvil A. Anderson received the highest award of the society at an impressive ceremony in Constitution Hall | The real results of the flight prob- ably will weeks, Capt. Stevens, scientific ob- server and commander of the strato- | sphere balloon Explorer II, explained. | He added however that “in general, | everything was very satisfactory.” That the flight was made for scien- tific purposes and not for mere record= seeking was made clear by Gen. John J. Pershing, who, in presenting the Anderson, emphasized that they were being honored “for carrying aloft 64 instruments and pieces of scientific apparatus to the highest possible alti- tude,” where they would be most effec- | skies. The balloonists, Gen. Pershing | explained, “brought back to earth the | richest cargo of scientific data yet | captured in the stratosphere.” | Proof World Is Round. | ‘Though most of the pictures ob- | tained by the batteries of automatic cameras throughout the flight still are in laboratories for study, measurement and analysis, & number of the most | interesting exposures were shown by the two members of the balloon crew and by Capt. Randolph P. Williams, | Army Air Corps, in charge of the 'ground arrangements and weather forecasting One of these pictures contains new visual proof that the world is round. Snapped at an altitude of nearly .14 miles, the exposure shows a section | of the horizon 220 miles long, or more than 315 degrees of a circle and about one-hundredth of the circumference of the earth. Projected on a screen, it reveals clearly the curved line of the earth’s surface. The horizon line in this picture was 300 miles away from the balloon, and the single print recorded more than 40,000 square miles of Western South Dakota. Roads Look Like Threads. Another picture was one looking directly down on the earth from an altitude of 72,395 feet, the highest altitude attained by the Explorer IL Cultivated fields appear as tiny patches, highways as barely visible white threads, and stream beds and the eroded areas of the Dakota Bad Lands as frost patterns on a cold window. The photograph is the high- est, by more than 2 miles, ever made. 7 commander and ARTHUR JORDAN = Pre-Christmas PIAN SAVE on Your Piario’ PURCHASE o not be known for many | | Hubbard gold medal to Stevens and | ¥ A the | tive in_exploring the secrets of °-acxemmc observer, gave an ncmunt‘drnmauc. scientific expeditions of of the flight, the long and elaborate | modern times.” HE EVENING Capt. Stevens, - STAR, WASHINGTON, D. SDAY, Stratosphere Balloonists Receive Medals Capt. Orvil A, Anderson and Capt. Albert W. Stevens, famous stratosphere balloonists, are shown as they received the Hubbard gold medals awarded them last night in recognition of their achievements. Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor, president of the National Geographic Society; Capt. Anderson, Gen. John J. Pershing and Left to right: ~—Star Staff Photo. | preparations preceding the takeoff and of the operation of the balloon, of the perilous moment at the takeoff, when the dropping of 800 pounds of ballast, by blasting the bottoms out of ballast bags, averted a crash into the cliffs around the strato-bowl, and of the delicate operation of setting the giant balloon back on the ground. Capt. Williams explained the method of collecting weather information and forecasting the ideal 24-hour period | which made possible the success of the flight. New March Played. Following a concert by the Army Band, which included the first public performance of the new “National Geographic March,” composed of Capt Thomas F. Darcy, band leader, the presentation ceremony was opened by | Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor, president of the society, who introduced Gen. Per- shing. | | “The longer we have worked with the gallant, resourceful and brainy | men that constitute the Army Air Corps,” Dr. Grosvenor said, “the deeper has grown our admiratidn for | the intelligence, efficiency and spirit that animate every member of the re- markable corps.” | He also paid tribute to the physicists and experts who worked under the leadership of Dr. Lyman J. Briggs, chairman of the Scientific Advisory Comimttee, in assembling the techni- cal apparatus for the flight, which he characterized as “one of the most pro- ductive, it was one of the most *50 *150 A BIG SAVINGS EVENT AT THE RIGHT TIME! Usually we wait until after the first of the year to start our SALE of PIANOS. This year we He pointed out that Gen. Pershing the sclentific research carried on in | has, for many years, been “an active the upper air. Capt. Anderson told | and inspiring” member of the board | of trustees of the society. Gen. Pershing, in presenting the medals to the officers, said. “The studies of this expedition in at least a score of scientific fields— studies bearing upon weather predic- tion and cosmic ray research, upon farming problems and radio trans mission—illustrate the diverse activ- ities of the National Geographic So- ciety and the useful functions of the United States Army in peace time.” He described the careers of Stevens and Anderson, beginning during the Easy Chair Made especially for us World War. 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