Evening star., 1932-10-02

ice is inaugurated the country will
be divided into three sections with
Cleveland, Kansas City and Oakland as
the key stations. Teletype stations in
the East would receive maps covering
the Eastern and Central sections, those
on the West Coast the Central and
Western maps and those in the middle
section their own chart and whichever
one of the other two would prove most
useful.
The original maps are received in
machines equipped with copying ink
ribbons so that number of copies may
be run off for individual use.
The Army meteorological service is
the oldest of all the Nations weather
services. The weather service orig
inally established by the Army Signal
Corps was the foundation for what later
became the Weather Bureau. now under
the Department Of Agriculture. The
Army still maintains its own service,
Army flying fields Both Army and
Navy meteorological services now are
keyed in with the Department OF Com
merce system. as are the systems OF the
larger air transport companies.
Navy Service Differs.
The Nays astrological system. because
| it deals largely with weather conditions
at sea. offers certain departures from
| the land services The Astrological or
ganization of the Navy came into ex-
istence during the World War as a
result of the realization that modern
fighting methods, particularly in the
field of aviation, gas and chemical war
fare and long-range gunfire, required
thorough weather information for sue
Tha cnQpial
undertaken at first almost exclusively
for the benefit of naval aeronautics.
During the World War SO officers and
about 200 men were engaged in aero
logical work at naval air stations along
the American, French and Irish coasts,
and with the bombing Squadrons in
France and England The present or
ganization includes about 25 officers
and 100 men distributed among l6
shore stations, including the Anacostia
Naval Air Station. and 10 major units
with the fleet. on aircraft carriers.
tenders, feet flagships and dirigibles.
Aerographers on five Navy transports
are engaged in taking daily upper
soundings over the oceans. The organ
iZation includes Marine Corps aerog-
raphers assigned to Marine aviation
bases in the United States, Haiti and
Nicaragua
The Nays Astrological officers have
finished postgraduate courses in aerol-
ogy at Annapolis and at the Massachu-
sets Institute Of Technology, and the
enlisted men are given an intensive
course of training at the Aerographers
School at the Naval Air Station, Lake.
hurst, N. j.
Land and Sea Service Given.
1t is the function of naval aerology
to furnish detailed information of sur
+, face and upper-air atmospheric condi-
tions over land and sea. This informa-
ton is essential to the preparation of
operating plans in time Of peace and
in making strategical and tactical dis
| positions in time Of war.
The daily routine of the theological
units includes preparation Of weather
+, maps and detailed forecasts twice daily,
/ taking Of upper-air soundings at fire.
quent intervals. daily flights to high al
titudes in planes equipped with record
| ing instruments, and continuous obser-
vations of the changing elements. The
daily high-altitude flights at the Ana
costa Naval Air Station usually are
made early in the morning to attitudes