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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29
LEGION IS READY
 FOR CONVENTION
Annual Session Gets Un- der Way Thursday At
 Tuscaloosa

MOBILE, Ala, June 2S.-(Special Leased Wire. .)-Legionnair of Ala bama will concentrate their forces this, week for a three-day siege of Tuscat loosa.
 With F. Taylor Peck of Mobile, de- (partment commander, presiding, the Alabama division of the American Le-, zion will hold its 1924 convention there Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Annual meetings of La Societe des 40 hommes ct s Chevaux, the American Legion Auxiliary and the Alabama de- partment of the Reserve Officers as- sociation have also been scheduled for that period. Department officers ex-, pect a heavy attendance from legion posts in all parts of the state. Pro gram arrangements, with the possible exception of a few minor details, have been completed by Farley w. Moody post of Tuscaloosa.
 One of the features of the convention will be an address by General Robert Lee Bullard, who will speak on the sub+- feet, The Men of the American Le+ zion, Their Service and Merits" Gem eral Bullard's address will take place on the second day of the convention. Numerous other prominent speakers have been invited to participate III the | program. 7-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29

than hydrogen, and to account for its appearance as dust from 56 miles up to 460 miles, the greatest height at which the auroral light has been ob- served, NVegard supposes the nitrogen crystals to be positively charged, cleo trically, by the rays of the sun, and repelled upward, rising like fountain, because of a positively charged layer of air at about 50 miles the hydrogen and helium, being unfrozen and hence consisting of very minute particles, actually leaving the earth by this cleo tric repulsion.
 Radio owes much to this lofty nitro gen snow" This chatged atmosphere of nitrogen dust, extending above 66 miles, should be a fairly good conduc- tor of electricity, at least for radio waves, much better in fact, than the surface of the earth. There is interest ing confirmation of this in the recent work of .Drs. J. HI. Dellinger and H. L.. Whittemore and s. Kruse, of the United States bureau of standards, who con- clude, from tests carried out in collab- oration with a number of amateur ra- diO operators, located in various parts of the United States, that the great distance for night transmission of radio signals and broadcasting is due to the bottom of this conducting layer which acts more or less like a metallic ceiling. When daylight comes, the air below this layer becomes temporarily cleo trically charged by action of the suns rays, preventing the electric waves from reaching this ceiling, and confirming them to- the poorer conducting earth or sea surface. That is why the daylight range of radio is small. The bureau of standards scientists even explain the fading of radio signals as being due to irregularities in this reflecting, or Heaviside, surface.
 Pile Up At Equator
 But the idea of a fountain of upper air may be extended even fur ther. These charged particles of nitro gen, as they pass upward, will tend to travel along the lines of the earth's magnetic field, and hence in both north ern and southern hemispheres will travel toward the magnetic equator. According to Professor Vegard, they pile up to a height of perhaps 4,000 miles, being visible at night at places near the equator as the Zodiacal Light.
 The electrostatic repulsion which forces the nitrogen dust upward is how ever, estimated to be sufficiently strong to send the nitrogen entirely off the earth, and this would happen continu- ously if it were not for elections, or minute negative charges of electricity,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29

which auroral investigations show must be emitted continually from the sun, and which must form a shielding ring, and prevent nitrogen from leaving the drops back, to be charged and forced upward again.
 Thus the upper atmosphere, far from being a region in which nothing ever happens, is, even in the light of our present rather meager knowledge of this subject, the place where the wealth CT changes begin the place where the long-distance radio waves travel; and is, further, a place where there Is held balance of forces which means life or death on this planet.
 The greater part of this region is beyond the reach of both the airplane, and the balloon, and the exploration of 1 this part of the atmosphere is but one of the tremendously interesting Applica- tions of the new rocket method.
 Copyright 1924, by Science Service, Inc, for The ge-Herald.)
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Among the interesting applications of the high-altitude rocket that is be- ing developed is the exploring of the uncharted reaches of the air that ex- tend from 20 to 500 miles above the earth's surface, and probably even higher; a region concerning whi"h we know much less than we know about many of the stars which are millions of miles away.
 Strange as it may seem, recent sci- entific conclusions deduced from Obser- vntions of upper air phenomaan have left the qu't ttion of this unexp,orec space in more unsettled state than it was before these conclusions were reached. There have been two ways of studying the upper air indirectly, one by observations of meteors that flash in the night, and the other by observations of auroral displays. Un. happily, ths deductions from these two methods are contradictory.
 MeteOrs Arc Miniatures
 The only bodies of appreciable size in the high upper-air are the meteors, which everyone sees occasionally, as they flash brightly for a moment, and disappear. The average meteor be- gins to be visible, because of heat gen. erated by air resistance, at height of about 80 miles, disappearing at about S7 miles. Although they appear as bright as first-magnitude stars, even to an observer 100 miles away, they are really nothing more than bits of iron or stone about the size of the head of pin but they come at such prodigious speed from outer space, ap. proximately 25 miles per second, that they possess enormous energy of mo- tion, varying as it does with the square of the velocity. These pinheads from space have enough energy to lift a ton through heights of nearly two feet.
 Before we consider the story that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29

are some places left in the second pe- riod, July g to 31, Scout headquarters is advising that all scouts register as soon as possible.
 The camp this year promises to be more attractive than that of last sum- mer, as a number of new features will be added. 7
 The days program will be divided between swimming, games and out-of- door scoutcraft. While the night pro- grams will be given over to camp fire programs with story telling, campfire stunts and scout songs. Two of the new features planned are basketry and folk dancing.
 The camp is to be under the direction of Mrs. Asa Rountree, Jr., local direc- tor, and Mrs. Page Sloss, field captain, who has recently returned from one of the national Girl Scout training schools. Among the leaders will be Mrs. E1wyn Ballard, Mrs. Clarence Bonham, Mrs. Pearl Crawford, Miss Mary Foster, Miss Katherine Wood and Miss Margaret McQuire, Mrs. Batcheler and Miss Warren.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29
Said Can't Be Done

"My experience with doctors and medicines caused me to lose faith in both, and when a friend told me that Msyr's Wonderful Remedy would cure my stomach trouble told him "it can't be done" However, he finally persuaded me to try it and to my sur prise it did. All symptoms of acute indigestion and gas having disap- peared." It is a simple, harmless prep aration that removes the catarrhal mu- GUS from the intestinal tract and allays the inflammation which causes prac- tically all stomach, liver and intes- tinal ailments, including appendicitis. One dose will convince or money re- funded. At all druggists.-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29
TEUTONS ADMITTED
 TO WORLD CHAMBER
Two Conditions Made By Inter-
 national Trade Body

PARIS, June 2S..(By the Associ- ated Press) Germany has been ad- mifked to membership in the Interna- tionaI Chamber of Commerce.
 The, motion admitting Germany was made by one of the Belgian ministers and supported by Etienne Elemental, French minister of finance, on behalf of the cabinet. The motion was adopted by the council of the chamber unani- mously.
 Two conditions were made by the council, one that German commercial intsfests would agree to former reso- lution of the chamber respecting rep araficns and the other that the Dawes report be accepted.
 The German chamber of commerce hassbeen organized for some time in the hope that it's delegates would be ad- mitted to the international boy. The German embassy in Paris with which the council of the international cham Der had not communicated, requested permission today to send represents tives to learn the precise manner in which Germany can henceforth take part in the chamber,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29
,PARELAUCHS AT NORRIS AND HIS
 ALABAMA KISS
LeFigaro Rejoices That They Have No Such Scandals

RzRIS, June 2S.-In the course of a recent inquiry by commission in the United States senate on the projected Muscle Shoals concession to Henry Ford, says Le Figaro, one of the wit nesses, Mrs. Edmundson, accused Senator Norris of having promised Mfr Ford his support in exchange for a kiss from one of the young women present at their interview, and of hay ing tailed to keep his promise when the kiss had been duly delivered.
 Senator Norris retorted furiously that it was not he who had kissed the young lady, hut that it was she who had given him the kiss, spontaneously.
 In an attempt to restore calm Sena- tor Heflin of Alabama declared that, as matter of fact, the young lady had kissed Senator Norris, unsolicited, which had aroused much jealousy among all the men who were there.
 Let us congratulate ourselves that our own conscript fathers are not the objects of such accusations!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29
MRS. |. ROGAN
 RITES DELAYED
Await Arrival Of Son And Daughter From
 California

Funeral of Mrs. Lafayette Rogan, former prominent resident of Birming- ham, who died at her home in Corona do, Cal, Friday. will be held early this week, upon arrival of Miss Kate Ro- gand and Daniel H. Rogan, daughter and son, from California. Miss Rogan and Mir. Rogan are expected to arrive Tuesday.
 Mrs. Rogan moved to Coronado, Cal, about 10 years ago. Her husband was one of the first settlers in the Bir- mingham district, coming here from Mississippi when the future metropolis was a struggling village. He served prominently in the civic life of the city as it developed and was active in rcli- eious aud educational affairs. He vas steward of the First Methodist church for a long time.
 The deceased is survived by four daughters, Mrs. C. E. Markell and Mrs. Nathal L. Miller of Birmingham, Mrs. Frank G. Jones, Aberdeen, Wash, and Miss Kate Rogan of Coronado, Cal, and two sons, Daniel Hunt Rogan and Nat Rogan, both of Coronado.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29

Sounding the unexplored upper air only 20 to 500 miles away from our daily wanderings is more important to science than Vernese journey to the moon. Speedy flights into regions that airplanes and balloons can never hope to reach are eagerly awaited by scientists who are uncertain as to con ditions in the higher part of the earth's' atmosphere through which we must look to see the rest of the universe, and through which all the energy from the earth's great power plant, the sun, must penetrate.
 Propelled By Gas
 Propelled by the expelled gases that result from the rapid and continuous burning of liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen or some very light liquid hy- dro-carbon, the rocket will attain a velocity three times that of high powered rifle bullet. Over a mile and a half will be travelled in one second by Dr. Goddard's high altitude rocket. The conventional ''rnile-a-minute" auto mobiles or even the four-miles-a-m minute airplane record is slow by comparison. At this rate the maximum trip con-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29

IIcuplhLeu, OUO Hl1IeS uAEeCt1y upWdIu1 would be accomplished within 515 min utes or less. As the air becomes less dense, the rocket will travel faster. In vacuum the rocket will travel 22 per cent faster than in air; it's velocity will be 9,700 feet per second instead of 5000 feet per second.
 To escape the earth, the rocket must achieve a speed of 12,O00 feet per sec ond, or 136 miles a minute. Dr. God dard's calculations show that for every forty pounds in such a rocket starting from a high mountain on earth, one pound could be flung out into space never to return to earth.
 But more important than such a spectacular stunt is the sending of d rocket carrying scientific instruments into part of the universe never be- f. e discovered. In Dr. Goddard's lab oratory, supported by the Smithsonian institution and Clark university, such rocket is now being built.
 What it may discover is told by Dr. Goddard in the following exclusive ar- IlclCs .7
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29
Propelled By Burning Gas, It Travels One And
 One-H Half Miles Per Second

HIGHER than object that left a millions miles Into the birthplace of weather the pathway of radio holds life death planet it's To these heights will be directed next fall instrument of science and advenure-the rocket
 Prof R. H Goddard director of the physical laboratories of Clark this descnden the coul hng sky travellers of Fourth of July celebrations the Dr. Goddards high altitude rocket will be restrained
  pull space will be within the although later Goddard expects lombard that weak sister of the earth with larger rocket that will explode charge fashght powder the surface notify the successful end the first tronoa journey Given time and Dr. Goddard promises to make Jules Vernes dreams true.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29
JAPANESE BUYING
 U.. s. DAIRY HERDS
Win Turn To Milk In Effort To
 Increase Stature

SAN FRANCISCO. June S0.-Japan has entered into an experiment to make her people larger in statue through the consumption of milk and is negotiating large purchases of milch cows through out the United States for proposed daifies in the Island Empire, according to bulle.1n issued today by the Cali fortia Dairy council. Dr. Atoushi Mi yaWali, professor of dairying at Hok- kailo Imperial university, is homeward bound with . big shipment of puferbred Holstein-F -Friesian cattle purchased from leading American breeders. While in San Francisco he consulted executives of the dairy council.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29
orEICERS INSTALLED,

JACKSON, Ala, June 2S.-All the Masonic organizations enjoyed a picnic and a bountiful dinner at the White Sulphur wells Thursday when the lns, stallation of officers took place. Dr. D. Adams was installing officer for the chapter and the Blue Lodge. SKIP Coale, installed ol4-~eis for the Eastern Star,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29
CAMP EXPLAINED
 BY GIRL SCOUTS
Summer Outing At Win nataska, July 14-31,
 Promises Success

Birmingham Girl Scouts are prepar- ing for great time at the big general summer scout camp to be held at Camp Winnataska, July 14 to 31. Registra- tions for the first camp period July IA to 22, are already filled but as there
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29
FIREMEN IMPROVED
Captain Hughes May Be Removed
 From Hospital Soon

Slight improvement, it has been not ed in the condition of Capt. V. W. Hughes of fire department No. 13, who was seriously injured in fall from the roof the Iron City Grain company dur ing the recent fire there.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29

Picture valuable nitrogen crystals be- electrified suns and repeed earth to be earth protecting circle of eecrons becoming about 40O0 miles above the believe nitrogen equator completely surrounds the earth out sdet the of live in.
 Two-C Column Diagram-Self explanatory.
 Professor Goddards high altitude rocket
 Goddard his laboratory working the rocket that will explore the the air 50 500 miles above the surface of the earth
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29
CARD OF THANKS

Mrs J. c. Holman and family wish to thank their many friends for their sincere symnathy and floral offerings during the recent illness and death of their beloved husband and father. :
Imperial Valley press., 1924-10-03
new FINANCIAL
INSTITUTION TO
OPEN UP HERE

FL Centre has been selected as
the location for a People s Fin NEE
and Thrift company bank and al
ready steps are under way whereby
it is expected one of these useful
institutions will be established here
under the\' Wims,:t System y with
ing q very short time.
Financing the wage Garner, whose
capital consists of his character
and his thrift, is a new line of
finance that will be the main goal
Of the bank, which, as in many
other centers, will be undertaken
by group of local men, now being
interviewed to form strong body
for the avowed purpose of advanc-
ing small loans.
For the purposes of organization
O. G. Scheig, Clarence f. O!eson,
and L. M. Claypool are in the city,
in the interests of tie parent or
ganization, the Peoples Finance
and Thrift company of America, the
headquarters of which are i'll Los
Angeles.
'ine RI Centre organizes ION VIII
be owned, managed and controlled
by local people when fully organic
ed, the Winisett system merely eX-
ercising general supervision. More
than fifty Such finance and thrift
companies are now operating in the
United States, and it is expected
that within three or four days of
fees will be secured here, and the
first meeting Of the local body will
be called for functioning. AS soon
as the Officers who will handle the
local proposition are named, full
details will be given the public.
The Southern Trust and Commerce
Bank has been named as escrow
agent for, the Ell Centre branch.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-10-03
Advisor Tells of
Barley Varieties
For Winter Use
BY v. w. DE TAR,
Assistant Farm Advisor

The season is now here when dai-
rymen are renovating their alfalfa,
and sowing barley for winter r"s-
turc. Since there are several v"rie-
ties Of barley grown in this valley
and since tests conducted by arm
crs of the valley in cooperation
with the Agricultural Extension
Service, have shown that certain
varieties are superior when used as
pasture; it is important that dairy
men secure the best varieties for
planting.
Probably the best variety of bar
ley to plant for winter pasture is
Tennessee Winter. This variety is
comparatively new in Imperial Val
ley, rs it was frs. grown here dur
ing the winter of 1922. Since its
introduction, number of growers
in the valley have tried it, and
found that it grows as rapidly as
the common barley, that il stools
somewhat more and therefore makes
somewhat more feed than the com
mon barley. Several pasturmgs
can be secured from this variety.
The supply of Tennessee Winter seed
is limited but those dairymen who
can get seed, will do well to plant
this variety.
The next choice in variety is com:
mon or coast barley. This variety
will give, about the same number
of pasturings as Tennessee Winter
and grows practically as fast. Vt
is less valuable than Tennessee Win
ter, chiefly because it does net stool
as much There is a plentiful sup
ply of seed of this variety in the
valley. ~ ~
Probably the. poorest variety of
barley to plant for winter pasture
in this valley lis common Matiout
This variety gives best results as a
grain crop in county whore wafer
is scarce. In such n locality, it
| will produce a good grain crop, but
has very short straw. 1t IS al
so best adapted to. light sandy soils.
When planred Tor pasture IN this
valley, especially ON heavy soils 1t
grows rapidly but does not F'How
Very tail. "A eter the first pFstu:ing
it makes an even shorter growth, SO
that the total amount of feed Sc
cured is considerably less than with
either of the other varieties.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-10-03
HERE
LISTEN TO men OF
SALVATION ARMY

The Rotarians gathered in strength
at the Barbara Worth Hotel Thurs
dav at the noon hour. Charles Paris
having charge Of the meeting. There
was no special speaker present, but
local taient was able TO keep the
minds of the club actively occupied.
just how many codes of ethics
are followed in the organization is
a dark secret, but B0bbie Burns read
his code of ethics with reference to
Rotary and Norman Dupont then
presented his code. Billy Tondro hap
pened along with birthday, and
paid accordingly, several members
vehemently protesting that he was
cheating.
: Statistics proved that the attend
amce for two weeks ago was 8S and
one.third and last week it reached
95 per cent, which was considered
satisfactory.
Frank Slocum had charge of the
program for the day, and spoke
anent the manufacture of a watch,
putting the brethren wise as to
what happens III most cases When
their watch is wrong. .>
Col. +. Boyd of the Salvation Army,
gave :, talk with reference To the
establishment of branch i'll the
valley, and A. "A. Kranz, one of the
Officers present, gave il tentative
outline of the course to be follow
ed in the bringing about of the
branch.
Guests of the club were introduc-
ed j. X. Herman of Santa Ana
Harold Burnham of II. CenrrO, and
NJ. S. Slaughter of Riverside being
the trio present. Visiting brethren
were Walter Hartman, Alf l.. Heck,
j. c. Allison, P. l.. Moore, all from
CalexicO, and William Schumacher
from Anaheim.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-10-03
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Department OF the Interior
u. S. LAND OFFICE, AT
Ell Centre, California
September 4, 1924

September 4, 1924
Notice is hereby gwen that Viii
liam Stephens, of Campo, California,
who, on January %, 1923, made
Stock Raising Homestead Entry,
No. O5375, for SWA SWH, Sec. s,
lSWA NWH, E1a SWA, VIZ SEA,
SEA SEA, See. s, SWA SWH,
See. g.. Township IS South, Range
z East, S. b. B. Meridian, has filed
notice of intention to make three
year final Proof to establish claim
to the land above described, before
Register, U. S. Land Office, at Ell
Centre, California, on the 9th day
of October, 1924.
Claimant names as witnesses:
Benjamin +. Raridon, of Campo,
Calf.
James Sweetman, of San Diego
Calf.
Samuel Elliott, of Boulevard,
Calf.
Fred Babcocl1. of Hipass, Calf.
JOHN w. SCOTT.
llt26 Register
Imperial Valley press., 1924-10-03
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Department of the Interior
q. 5. LAND OFFICE, AT
El Centre, California,
September 4, 1924

ECcpjCHlDti II io-i
Notice is hereby given that Ben
jamin +. Raridon, of Campo, Cali
fornia, <who, on July 3, 1924, made
Stock Raising Homestead Entry,
No. 05727' for Lots 6, 7, s, 9, 10,
II, II, See. 7; Lots 5, 6, 7, 8, 8,
10, IL, II; NEA, See. IS, Town
ship II South, Range East, S. B.
b. Meridian, has filed notice of in
tention to make three year final
Proof to establish claim to the land
above described, before Register
U. S. Land Office, at Ell Centre
California, on the 9th day of 90
tober, 1924.
Claimant names as witnesses:
William Stephens, care Z. j. Gar
ner, of Campo, Calf.
James Sweetman, of San Diego,
Calf.
Samuel Elliott, of Boulevard,
Calf.
Fred P. Babcock, of Hipass, Calf.
JOHN w. SCOTT,
11t26 Register.