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This would require very strong and
far too heavy net for supporting o
gondola.
on the other hand, the balloon
should be nearly full at the start to
avoid having the cover become entan-
gled In the net.
We overcame these difficulties by do
ing away with the net and then at
taching the gondola directly to the
balloon, as in the case OF captive
balloons.
Arrangement Works Admirably.
This arrangement. which had been
applied also to other balloons before,
worked admirably.
From the physical point Of view the
ascent to the height We contemplated
offered great difficulties. 1t Is known
that human being can support twice
the atmospheric pressure comfortably
when not obliged to do bodily labor.
This pressure corresponds to an alti-
tude of about $500 meters and many
persons at such an altitude display all
the symptoms of mountain sickness.
The heights Of 1000 to 5000 meters
cannot be borne without the artificial
administration of oxygen. Even with
the use OF the most up-to-date APP
paratus the capacity of human eff
cheney dw!ndles at the heights Of 10 900
to 10000 kilometers, while the altitude
I aimed at. approximately 10000 me-
tiers, is MORALLY dangerous to any hui
man being.
1 was. therefore, forced to erect my
laboratory in an alright closed cabin
wherein could be maintained something
like a normal atmospheric pressure.
In principle. the dangers from eX-
IRENE attitudes were thus eliminated
but ss a matter of fact a closed cabin
offers undoubtedly greater danger
should 1t suddenly fail to remain air.
tight.
Cabin Required Utmost Care.
II will thus be seen that the construc-
ton of the cabin and all the work con-
nected Herewith required the utmost
care.
After long study we decided upon the
following dimensions and the material
to be used in the construction of the
balloon:
The balloon cover was to be made
from ordinary rubber material of good
quality, cotton weight, the rubber solu-
ton being ITO grammes per square
meter weight of cotton, As grammes to
the square meter on the lower part of
the cover and 80 grammes to the square
meter on the upper. The cabin was to
be spherical in shape and constructed
of an alloy of aluminium and tin, hand
wrought and welded.
The diameter Of the sphere was to be
210 cent.meters. In the interior Of the
cabin the air was to b. renewed by two
filters, each having capacity for main
tanning the atmosphere sweet for eight
hours.
1t was lucky that we took two such
machines along, for this precaution
saved our lives in our IT hours jour-
rey. We planned to make the first at
tempt at starting September 13, 1880,
but unfortunately on that day the wind
blew so hard on the ground that it
would have been difficult for the bal
loon to rise and the start was post
poned.
Faulty calculations affecting the con-
struction of the balloon, as some papers
assumed, were totally untrue.
After 10np wait fba weather cop-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-30
CHANGE IS STUDIED
BY PRESBYTER|ANS
General Assembly May Be
Cut From 924 to $50 Mem
bers Under Plan.

BY the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, May 3o.-Radical
change in the form Of the General
Assembly Of the Presbyterian Church
in the United States of America came
before that organization today.
Embodied in a report OF the gen.
eral council Of the church, the change
would reduce the number of commits
sioners to the assembly from 924 to
$50, resulting, the council said. in q
saving Of approximately $4,000 in ex-
penSes for each assembly, be-i0es facil-
itsting administrative details. The
present session is estimated officially
as costing the church approximately
$50. 900.
The report is expected to be sent
down to the Presbyteries.
Feminine Membership Considered.
Change in the general council was
initiated az yesterdays session. when
council report recommending pro-
visions to permit women to assume
membership en- the council. was re-
ferred to q committee.
First debate of the session broke,
however with proposals from the coun-
Gil that Presbytery and synodical
boards on vacancy and supply be set
up to attempt to solve difficulties be-
tween pastors and their congregations
which, termed the 'Sorest spot" in the
church, were attributed, not to flnan-
cial distress ana theological misgivings
on the part of ministers, but rather to
purely personal feeling between them
and their communicates.
The plan, however, was adopted
finally, though Rev. Charles F. Van
Horn, Honey Brook. Pa. insisted or
submission of the plan to the presby-
teries, charging that its operation would
result In domination of ministers by o
hierarchy CT bishops.
Local Evangelism May End.
Although overtures already have beer
received asking the assembly to ordel
studies OF unemployment, there was M
opposition to q general council repcr'
off. red through DR.. Hugh Thomson
Kerr. Pittsburgh, retiring moderator
calling for emphasis on Christian dis
cipleship rather than legislative actior
in efforts to solve that social problem.
An end to the system CT local evan
gelism in effect since 1893 was seer
also at yesterdays session, when 1t wa
officially reported that an overture au
thcriz.ng abolition of the system hat
been adopted by the presbyterieS Of thu
church. Ratification Of the report alon'
remains.
| Another overture offered by the gen
eral council proposed abandonment C.
the present system of licensure of thos,
deemed inadequately prepared for thu
ministry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-30
PAIR GETS FOUR.YEAR
TERMS FOR R0BBERIES
Richard Miller and Lee Leaman
Hear Sentences for Holding
Up Filling Stations.

Richard Lowell Miller and Lee Bird
well Leanlan, each %, were sentenced
yesterday by District Supreme Court
Justice Peyton Gordon to serve four
years each in the penitentiary on two
charges of robbery. Sentence was fixed
at four years in each case. but were al
lowed to run concurrently.
Miller and Leaman were surprised by
policemen in q scout car as they were
robbing and tying Clarence S. Muse,
IN charge Of filling station at Wis
consin avenue and Window place in
the early morning Ct May 3. They had
taken $43.33 from knight. On April IL
the two men held up Henry T. Knight,
the manager Of filling station at First
street and New York avenue northeast.
Jesse O'Shipley, 20, who pleaded
guilty to an attempt to rob the main
Office Of the Western Union Telegraph
Co., at 708 Fourteenth street on tbs
evening Of May IL, was also sent to the
penitentiary for four years by Justice
Gordon. He did not have q gun, but
held his hand in his pocket in such
manner as to indicate to Roy r. Barnes,
the night manager. that 1t was pistol.
When Shiplcy asked Barnes to open
the safe he was told to do 1t himself,
but he ran into the street, where he
was arrested.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-30
u. S. WHEAT BUYING
BROUGHT TO END
200, 100000 Bushels on Hand Ac-
count for $50, 100000 Esti-
mated Deficit.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO o. May 30.-Federally financed
purchase of what, which started in
February, 1880, came to an end yester-
Cay
The Farm Boards Grain Stabiiza-
ton Corpor2 ton was in possession OF
200, 100000 bushels of grain.
At the closing price of July deliveries
statiSticiens estimated the deficit would
approach $4,000 900, and that monthly
carrying charges of 100000 would be
added until disposition Of the holdings
is made.
George Minor, president Of the Grain
Sterilization Corporation, in a state
ment, said the market for May futures.
which ended today. cl, seq at 1914 cents
a bushel, compared with the minimum
price of 81 cents, at which the corpora
ton had stab. HE'D inc crop. The
price of cash wheat, he said, also has
been maintained on a comparative level
with the futures.
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WORK CUTS ADOPTED
I'm RAIL BROTHERHOOD
Slash in Trainmen's Hours, Due in
About 80 Days, Will Give Old
Jobs to 10,S50 Men.
BY the Associated Press.

HOUSTON. Tex. May :0.-The
Brotherhood Of Railroad Trainmen to-
day had agreed on a reduction in the
members working hours, expressing the
belief it would furnish employment to
approximately l1,o00 men now cut of
work
President A. F. whitney said the re-
duction would take erect as socn as
the brotherhood chairmen for the vaTi-
Gus railways returned home frcn the
national convention ana conferred with
rail executives. or in about 80 days.
The resolution was adopted last night.
It is equivalent to an order to all Esm-
bers. BY its provisions members in
yard service would b, limited to IS days
or 200 hours q month. Members in
FIRE; ght service would be limited to $500
miles. or the equivalent monthly. and
members il passenger service to $500
miles.
Whitney estimated the number Of
men to be ttus re-employed at 10.850
At the beginning Of the convention
about three weeks ago, It was announced
that Al 900 members Of the brother
hood were out of work
The convention will be adjourned in
three or four days.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-30
ROW UPSETS FLORIDA
LEGISLATIVE SESSION
Two Representatives Taken From
Chamber After Bloody
Fist Fight.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TALLAHASSEE. Fla. May 30.-rep-
resentative J. Tom Watson. HillSborough
County, and r. c. Horne. Madison
County. fought with fists on the. floor
Of the Florida House Of Representatives
last night.
The men, both bleeding about the
head, were separated after more than
a dozen Representatives tried for sew
eral minutes to part them.
Horne was taken from the chamber.
but Watson. after being bandaged with
handkerchief. continued his argu-
ment for minutes, wCen the House
adjourned in confusion.
The fight started as Watson spoke to
point Of personal privilege in regard
to what he termed an attack by Horne
on the integrity Of the House.
Horne objecEd to the trend Of Wat
sons talk.
Watson had been elected from the
Chamber by the sergeant at arms earli-
er In the day after an argument with
Speaker Lewis.
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know nothing definite yet about their precise
nature but from all previous experiments it was
possible to conclude that cosmic rays come from
the ether to the earth. 1t was clear, therefore,
that these rays could best be examined when they
had been absorbed as little as possible by the
atmosphere.
Certain considerations showed me that 1t was
desirable to measure these rays at that height at
which they had penetrated only one-tenth OF the
earths atmosphere.
The problem, therefore, became an aeronautical
one and resolved itself into the task Of reaching
IN balloon that altitude whereat the height
barometer stood at rs millmeters 1t is known
that at the level Of the sea mercury stands at TIC
mllimeters.
Little Trouble Building Balloon.
The construction Of balloon which could reach
that altitude offered particular difficulty. 1t is
enough if the cubic capacity stands in relation to
the total weight of the balloon in a proportion
which is easily calculable.
In round figures, 1T can be said that at the
height which 1 contemplated reaching, l cubic
meter Of hydrogen can only support little more
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-30
BRONX GUNNER KILLED
Slayers Invade Harlem to Corner
Fighting Victim in Auto.

NEW YORK, May 80 (R-Gunmen
today again invaded the Harlem
neighborhood where two were killed by
machine gun bullets Thursday night.
To-Day they shot to death man be-
lieved to be Peter Coll Of the Bronx.
The victim, cornered in his autcmo-
bile, jumped out and began firing in
self -defense. but the answering fusil-
lade Of bullets wound him in the head
and body. He died almost instantly.
Thursdays killing was blamed by po-
lice on either q beer price-cutting war
or trouble among policy racketeers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-30
Detroit Trio in Ontario Hurt.

LONDON, Ontario, May 80 R.-The
Misses Eortcnse and Esther Bruer and
Miss Louise, Schneider, all Of Detroit,
were in st. Joseph's Hospital today
critically injured in an early morning
automobile collision near London. Four
other persons, all living here. also were
badly hurt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-30
CAR CRASH HURTS WOMAN
Man Held on Three Traffic Charges
at Decatur Heights.
BY stan Correspondent Of The Star.

BY Stan Correspondent Of the Star.
DECATUR HEIGHTS, Md, May 80.
Matte Jeffries. 2700 block Of Sher-
man avenue. suffered a broken knee
cap and Henry Myers Of Washington
was arrested on three traffic charges
following a collision at the intersection
of the Landover road and Defense
Highway early yesterday.
Constable Andrew Gasch, who made
the arrest, charged Myers with leaving
the scene of an accident, reckless driv-
ing and driving without q permit. His
bond was set at $1,000.
The injured woman was taken to
Casualty Hospital by the Prince Georges
County rescue squad.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-30

Before the days of Columbus two
nations south of us had built up states
comparable In some respects with the
European peoples of the day. In what
is now the United States and Canada
there was but o vagabond beginning Of
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KILLS FOUR CHILDREN
Man Yields AK When Wife Calls
Him for Work.

RYBNIK, Silesia, May 30 [P).-When
Robert Skorupa's wife awakened him
today. urging him to go to work, he
few into a rage and grabbed an ak.
Then. police said, he killed four OF
his children and badly injured two 9TH
ers. He tried to end his own life, but
only succeeded in wouuding himself.
He was taken to a hospital for the in
sane.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-30
Nova Scotia Jurist Dies.

ANNAPOLIS ROYAL. N. s., May 30
R).-Robert Edward Harris. chief JUS
tice Of Nova Scotia since 1918, died at
his home today. He was In his seventy
first year. - 1890. $3.50 ---~ - %
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Five "Intellectuals" Sentenced.

ROME, May 30 (R.-Five Of the
seven "intellectuals" on trial for Of.
lenses against the state today were sen.
fenced to from to 20 yeara n pgtsons
Tia ethezs Ksra Aeanla - a
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A. E. Cliff DIES
End Comes to Georgia Central
President at Savannah.

SAVANNAH, Ca, May 80 P.-A.
E. Cliff. 81, president of the Central
of Georgia Railway, died here at $50
am. today.
Mr.. Gift had been in Ill health for
several weeks, and on May rs he under
went an operation for an abdominal
aiiment.
He came to the Central of Georgia in
1929 from the Illinois Central Rail-
road, where he had risen from brake
man to vice president.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-30

The air forces Of the United States
Army and Navy are entirely e. rate
unit&
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IhanlO
altitude balloon meeting these
at times carrying capacity than
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PICARD TELLS HIS OWN STORY :
OF CLIMB TO STRATOSPT1ERE
Scientist, in Signed Narrative, Reveals
Precaution of Taking Two Air Filter !.
Machines Saved Their Lives.

signed narrative Of
altitude approximately 10
scientist
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BY PROF. AUGUSTA PICARD.

Rs o o me
80 MANA)My experiments in my
radum
nducedm to make experiments n also
that
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Then came the colorful 22nd OBJ
servation Wing. composed OF skeleton
squadrcns of five planes each from the
10 National Guard Squadrons, stationed
in all parts of the country. These
squadrons,' forming the Nations second
line Of aerial defense, have been giving
a splendid account of themselves
throughout the maneuvers and, though
t:Ieir pilots in many cases can fly only
at intervals during the year and seldom
hate an opportunity to fly in formation,
they have been keeping right up with
the squadrons of the Regular Army.
Above and on the tanks of the
column were the 10 pursuit squadrons
composing the LIST Pursuit Wing, which
spent last night at Boiling Field.
The wing, which will remain at
Boiling Field until Monday nlsrning,
includes 1914 pursuit planes, 33 transport
planes. which were ordered to Middle
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-18
3 OVERCOME IN
PHARMACY FIRE
Battalion Chief, Men Are
Smoke Victims.

A battalion chief and two f1remen
we're overcome with smoke while
fighting a blaze that damaged a
pharmacy and grocery more than
$4,000 in the $500 block Clifton
street early today.
Firemen from Engine House %
dragged Battalion Chief Robert
Hansell to safety when he sue
cumbed to smoke in the Crosley
pharmacy, 3342 Clifton street. He
was treated at city hospital and
dismissed.
Later Jesse Hoops and Clarence
Ottinger, both from % company,
became unconscious from smoke,
and they, too, were given medical
aid.
The fire started near the furnace
in the basement of the pharmacy,
and spread to an adjoining grocery
operated by Phillip Pollock. Ralph
CroSley, owner of the building, said
his loss would be near $4,000, and
Pollock said damage to his stock
would be more than $1,000.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-18
Doctor Finds instrument
Will Help Others, but
Not Own Deafness.

To invent a machine which will
assist in correcting other people S
ear troubles, yet to find that it will
not help cure his own partial deaf
ness is the predicament in which
DR.. Richard Millar, director of the
photography division of the Metho-
dist hospital, finds himself.
Many years ago the ingenious
Scotchman took up exercise in the
same strenuous way in which he
goes into anything that he is in
terested. A hemorrhage injured the
part of the brain controlling the
functions of the ear. Apparatus
has not yet been devised which can
locate the region affected. THAT
will come" said Millar. THE ear
camera is a step forward"
The camera pictured above will
take photographs which are 100
times as large as the inner ear.
With the use of the concave mirror
a powerful beam of heatlesS light
is focused into the ear. The eX-
posure is made through a hole in
the center of the mirror, which is
turned to defect the light from the
lens of the camera. 1t is possible,
for the first time in medical his
tory, to take photographs of the
interior of the ear.
DR.. Millar is now at work on a
camera which will take pictures Of
the back Of the eye. In his work
rooms he has equipment with VIII n
he can photograph the interior of
the stomach, bladder, nostrils and
other parts of the body. The stom-
ach camera is his own development.
The patient swallows the little
camera in which there are sixteen
pin-point lenses. A tiny bulb of
12,00O-candIe power makes pictures
possible. The negatives, though
very small, are so clear that prints
and engagements can be made to
show the progress of healing
measures.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-18
BIG ZERO is DRAWN BY
STATE IN ARMORY QUIZ

be paid for out Of the emergency
fund, but that the work was to be
done Immediately. But that was
back in 1929.
First interest the Governor showed
was to get the authors of the bill
to strike out a $4,000 appropriation
which would have permitted the
work to be completed as the emer-
gency clause provided.
I'll finance this" he declared.
Then months elapsed and absolute
ly nothing was done. BY constant
prodding from the press, the work
finally got under way.
Alibi Left for Orr
Just before the 1881 legislature
convened, Lawrence F. Orr, chief
examiner of the state board of &C
counts, said that the final report
would be ready to submit to the
lawmakers who ordered the investi-
cation made. But it wasn't sub
mitted.
Governor Leslie paid the probe
bill from his emergency fund and
went yachting.
Orr was left alone to figure out
the alibi, when the expenditure
without result was disclosed.
THE report isn't quite ready yet
and it belongs by right to the
Governor" Orr explained. 1.-The
reason We didn't submit it to the
legislature was because the legis-
latogs never asked for it"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-18

Later he modified this statement
and admitted that both Senators
Thurman A Gottschalk Dem,
Adams, Blackford and Wells and
Alonzo H. LindIey CRep., Fountain,
Vermillion and Warren had in
quired for the report several times
during the legislative session.
Anyway, the report doesn't
show anything" Orr asserted,
that is, anything Of criminal
nature"
In 1929 the legislature launched
the move when it was learned that
armories were being built through
out the state under a holding COM
pany plan whereby The Peoples
State bank provided the funds
and Ostrom Realty and Construc-
ton Company. bank subsidiary,
did the building.
This scheme had been promoted
under the regime of former Gov
ernor Ed jackson, through the Of
flee of the Acknowledgement. All
the state had to do was to take
care of the financing for twenty
years or so and then it owned the
property.
Besides ordering the probe Of past
performances of this kind, the 1929
legislature called a halt 10 this
building program and decided that
the state could build and pay for
its own armories much more
cheaply. =
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-18
How to Lose Fat
a Pound a Day
on a Full Stomach
Do Just These
Tue Simple Things
Fat MeLts Away

Science has made important discov-
cries in fat reduction. The average
fat person can now rip off fat a
pound a day-four to seven pounds
every week!-on a full stomach,
with never a hungry moment. Thus
it is foolish now to stay fat.
This is what you do: Take a tea
spoonful ordinary Jad Salts in a
glass of water q half hour before
breakfast every morning. This re-
1uces moisture-w weight instantly.
Also cleanses the system of the
waste matter and excess toxins that
most fat people have, and banishes
puff1ness and bloat.
Then do this about eating. FILL
YOUR STOMACH-eat your fill
of lean meats, vegetables like spin
ach, caulifloWer, cabbage, tomatoes,
ETC., and lots of salads. Eat lot.
Eat all you can hold. Don't go
hungry a minute! Cut down on but
ter, sweets and desserts, bread. Eat
any fruit except bananas, for des-
sert.
That's all you do. Fat seems to
melt away. The coarse lines Of over
weight give way to the refined ones
OF slenderness. You lose as much as
a pound a day. You feel better than
for years. For in this treatment YOU
achieve two important results. The
lad Salts clear your system of toxins.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-18
BURGLAR IS ROUTED
FIeeS, Leaving All His Loot
Behind Him.

A burglars hard work went for
naught today when he was forced
to leap from the roof Of a two-story
building and flee, leaving his loot of
groceries and fruit behind.
Reports of a man on the roof of
the Swiss Cleaners, 1112 North ILL
nois street, sent Ed Barnes, cleaning
firm employee, and Andy McOuat,
merchant policeman, to the roof.
They arrived in time to see the
burglar leap into an alley in the
rear.
Investigation revealed the thief
had smashed a window to enter
Cravens' restaurant, 1106 North
Illinois, and that he had bored
Thorough the wall into the Chester
Williams grocery. 1104 North Illinois
street, appropriating merchandise in
each place.