New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 3, 1929, Page 23

. i Shoots Dice With Prisoners |ing the law but the circumstances |named “Wonder Geyser.” “ e e as ]tness Many of the prisoncrs brought be- |are such that they should mot be| The new phenomenon erupts four STUDY TORNADOES Origin of “Tlistm Still Mys- try Despie Ifvesigation Washington, May 3.—(UP)—The United States Weather Bureau has learned much during the last two years about the “twisters” which fre- quently play havoc with the middle west, the United Press was told to- day. Revolving at speeds between 200 and 500 miles per hour, they pounce on unsuspecting villages from their birth-place in the clouds. Rising as suddenly as they descend, these giant vortexes seize another victim, only to rise again. They usually travel from 10 to 15 miles horizontally before dissipating themselves. These “twisters,” according to Weather Bureau scientists, have bheen known to drive straws into trees, hurl scantlings into steel, and sweep surprised victims in the air only to deposit them gently and safe- ly half a mile away. Origin Obscure 80 much for the habits of torna- does. Their origin? “That,” it was said, “is still ob- scure, though much light has been thrown on the subject during the last iwo years.” The out-of-doors is a big laboratory. No one wants to get near enough to these death-dealers to dy them closely. In the few in- stances when they have passed over meteorological apparatus, it has been wrecked. “Broadly speaking,” one scientist raid, *“we have learned they are caused by currents of hot and cold air, the former usually moving north and the latter south, which, coming together, form a rapidly whirling e speed grows as its size The Mississippi valley is the most tornado-infested region in the world. ‘Warm winds moving northward over the Gulf of Mcxico meet there with cold air currents from the northern Rockies. “Twisters” often result. They are rare on the Atlantic sea- board and virtually unknown on the Pacific ‘coast. After the Mississippi valley, Australia has more tornadoes —which ware popularly and errone- ously known as ‘cyclones—than any other part of the globe. Move Comnter-Clockwise In the northern hemisphere, it was said, tornadoes always move in a counter-clockwise direction be- cause of the earth's rotation. Below the equator their motion is clock- wise, The -small whirlwinds dancing over fields on mer days are not miniature torna- | does, as 18 popularly believed. They | are formed always by warm air on | the earth’s surface and may rotatc | in either or two directions. Only in Arizona, according to the Weather | Bureau, do they ever attain enough velocity to be dangerous. Even there damage is sinall. | ‘The popular idea that one should close doors and windows when a tor- nado approaches is wrong, the Weather Bureau said.. Much of a twister's ‘damage results from the sudden expansion of air in houses which results in an explosion. Open- ings allow the air free course and prevent this damage, it was said. Although the Weather Bureau eannot forecast tornadoes with ac- curacy, it does know in advance of condltions likely to form them. 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If he throws a “natural” or “malkes his point,” the negro goes to jail; if he fails, the prisoner goes free. Just to show that the dice aren't loaded, he cecasionally lets a prisoner rool the bones. Oath Taken on Skull No oath is taken on the Bible in Judge Ab's court; he keeps on his bench a human skull, obtained from a medical college which he used for this purpose. “Boy, put your right hand on that skull and swear to tell the truth,’ he will tell a negro witness. And Iho‘ dusky witness, with trembling fin- | gers and bulging eyes, usually tells the whole truth—and nothing but. When negro couples appear in Judge Al's court to be divorced, he asks man and wife to join right in the Then he reaches across his bench and knocks the hands apart with a law book—sometimes it is a tele- phone directory, but that doesn’t make any diiference. “Now you two are divorced,” he tells them. The judge keeps in his desk a small box of “conjure powder' (it's really only flour) that he uses to “break spells” when a negro appears before him and complains that he has been “cunjured” by another ne- gro “Ee-nec, mi-nee mo! Go, bad con- jure, go!” gravely says Judge Ab as he sprinkles the powder on the ne- | aro's head. The victim then leaves the court- room much relieved. Justice, Not Law “I try to decide cases on their| merit and keep law in the back- ground,” says Judge Ab. “If al hard-working man comes before me on a charge of drunkenness, I sel- dom fine him because if he has worked hard all weck he is entitled 10 & little.dram, providing he doesn't disturb anyone. “In many cases that come before |0ld Faithful Has Rival |larity me, the persons are guitly of violat- BEEF veeee 38| b, . punished. 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