Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-06-04
This Week
b ARTHUR BRissArg
Up in the Air-Ocean
Rome Sends Bad News
A Great U. S. Flyer
Cash for Three Things

Cash for Three Things
Men deal with two oceans, one
above the other, of water and OF air.
In one, we die If submerged too long,
In the other. fishes die
For centuries men have been IA
mIllar with the ocean of water, In
venting legends about il. diving into 1t
for pearls. sailing over 1t. for com
merce, and recently men have explored
1t in diving bells.
Now Professor Picard. courageous
scientist takes his diving bell' IN
the other direction, upward. In an
alright round ball. supplied with
oxygen for artificial breathing. ut
tuched TO d balloon, Professor Picard
went UP to investigate the strato-
sphere, near the top of our air ocean.
He broke tile record for height by
1900 feet, going up 800 feet, and
rskine his life. II the balloon had not
come down, he and his assistant,
Charles kipfer. must have sufiocated.
They had narrow escape as IL "as.
For the first two miles the sclentinc
.clmbng bell' went up through the
LAYER of clouds, storms and changing
Temperatures thut lies close to the
earth 1T the bottom" OF our air-ocean.
Higher up the temperature fell 10
131 degrees below zero, still warm
as compared to absolute zero OUTSIDE
of our atmosphere, more than 4U de-
grees below zero.
In the upper mir wind blows stead
lily from the east. caused by the earths
movement. No storms or clouds up
there.
And far up the sun and stars shine
In sky jet black. due to the fact that
there il no dust In that high atmos-
phere. Without dust, 81 plentiful on
the .hottom" OF the air. the sky would
be always black. there would be no
rainfall, aud we should probably not
he here.
Professor Picard will have inter-
esting things to tell his fellow seien-
lists. who look upon his escape from
death as a miracle
No monument will he built to him,
Of course, because he only went up III
| the interest Of science. Ii lie hau
4 gone up to kill somebody or destroy
Il whole city he would hive large
monument.
News from Rome continues bad. The
/ fact that for three months the pope
has refused TO receive all ambassador
from the Fascist government while
Mussoini has refused to receive the
/ nuncio sent by the pope. indicates
straned relations between the govern
4 ments OF Italy and the Vatican City,
q Outbreaks against The pope and the
Catholic religion continue. A picture
of Pope Plus was publicly tramnled on
nv Fascist students. The pope IL pub
Icly called traitor by the mob and
Catholic books are burned.
{ CAPTAIN Hawks. champion American
: flyer. had his breakfast In London
luncheon la Berlin. and dinner II
Paris.
The crowd welcoming him at Ia
, Bourget. the Paris. flying field, callet
! him Americas meteor man, III
/ flew from London to Berlin In hour
i and II minutes, spent an hour an,
\ twenty-seven minutes in Berlin, plent
$ of time for luncheon. and flew fror
Berlin 10 Paris for his dinner In
hours and > minutes
e Good times or bad. men will I'm
!, money for three things --lsaclng, gan
= bling. smoking. And the worst OF IN
!, three il gambling.
:. The Irish sweepstakes, to help
= build Irish hospitals. total amour
q s1a,-aO.0OO. Hospitals will get MOI
Fe than s3.OOO,0O0, gambling about 81
O0O0OO; expenses will eat the res
There will be many prizes Of $4,000
is also $4,000 and $4,000, and smail'
IN prizes. totalng 1000 prizes In all.
s Five millions have bought ticket
!. and whether they win or lose thu
e. are little nearer to the certainty tn
Of they will never make any nermane
S. success. Gambling prevents that
The queen OF England recently ce
brated her sixty-fourth birthday, a.
= the British Empire rejoices at h
y good health Well 1t may. Que
= Mary attends to her business and Sc
= q good example, from her old-fas
Toned hats to her old-fashioned sho
from her kindly, but always dignlfi
ie expression to the long skirts that cor
'n down to- her ankles.
10 Others may be foolish; she neN
ne will be, and she will make no conc
III sion to foolishness.
is, An English lady who had devot
le, her life to horse racing orders
relatives to cremate her body q
scatter the ashes on the racetra
She liked to think OF the thunder
q hoofsn coming down the stretch
nd victory over her dust. She might
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