• CORVRICHT UNDERWOOD A UNDERWOOD. N Y.
WIFE OF NEW SENATOR FROM
MASSACHUSETTS
Mrs. William M. Butler, wife of
the new U. S. Senator from Massa
chusetts, who succeeded the late
Henry Cabot Lodge. Like her hus
p band, who was the President’s cam
paign manager, Mrs. Butler is a
close personal friend. of both Mr.
and Mrs. Coolidge, and she is ex
pected to play an important role in
the social life of the Capital. Be
fore her marriage in 1907 she was
Mary Lothrop Webster, of Boston.
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French Ambassador and
Coolidge In Conference
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 19
President Coolidge and Emile Daes
chner who presented his credentials
as French Ambassador to the United
States, took occasion on their first
meeting, to exchange assurances that
nations must be expected to pay their
debts.
Daeschner recalled that America
and France rendered one another mu
tual assistance “thus paying each
other their debt of gratitude just as
they are firmly solicitous, when occa
sion arises, of paying their material
debts.”
In response, President Coolidge re
ferred to the French aid in the revo
lution adding, “thus was paid the debt
of gratitude and both governments
should experience deep satisfaction in
their solicitude that material debts
also must be discharged.”
Madame Daeschner and daughter
came to America with the new am
bassador.
Warden Lawes, of Sing Sing, an
nounced that the number of convicts
committed to that prison increased
37 per cent during the past year.
Four firemen, with a pulmotor
started a newly born Chicago boy
baby to breathing, when his lungs
failed to act naturally.
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Why There Are Zones
of Silence In the Air
During the great war it was observ
ed that there were mysterious zones
of silence in which the reports of
the heaviest artillery could not be
heard.
During the bombardment of Ant
werp, for example, the boom of the
big guns was heard sixty miles away.
Beyond that for thirty miles it was
not heard, and then farther still it was
heard again. There were other in
stances where cannonading such as
the world had never known was heard
very far away, while at a nearer dis
tance nothing could be heard. In
front of the church at Neuilly, a sub
urb of Paris, in the calm of the night,
the big guns at the front, 80 miles
away, were heard distinctly while at
Chantilly, twenty miles nearer the
front, nothing was heard.
Since the close of the war, scien
tists in France and England have
been seeking to establish the cause of
the strange phenomenon.
Among these scientific investigators
is Miller Christy, an English meterol
ogist who has made an elaborate
study of the audibility of Continental
gunfire at Chignal, near Chelmsford,
England. Among the results of his
observation, reports the British Sci
ence Guild News Service, was the fact
that the direction of the wind had very
little influence. If anything the fir
ing was heard most plainly when the
wind blew from a more or less west
erly direction. A most interesting point
however, in connection with the trans
mission of the sound was that in every
year apparently there was a regular
and wTell-defined period during which
the gunfire was audible at Chelmsford
followed by a long period during which
it was seldom or never heard.
There are a numDer of theories as
to why these zones of silence exist.
The first of these formulated was that
by Von dam Borne, who based his ar
gument on the hypothesis that at
great heights the principal constitu
ent of the atmosphere was hydrogen,
in which gas sound would travel much
faster than in ordinary air. The pro
posal has, however, certain difficul
ties. It is not easy to see how a
sound wave in hydrogen could force
its way back through the denser lay
ers of the atmosphere any more than
it would be easy to sed how a feather
could have an appreciable influence on
a ton of steel. Further, there is no
evidence that upper layers of air con
sist of hydrogen.
“Fresh light was thrown on the
problem by Lindemann of Oxford, in
studying the death agony of particles
cutting into the earth’s atmosphere.
Others had found by correlating obser
vations made of shooting stars at va
rious distant points at what height in
the atmosphere the death agony oc
curred. They worked on such data
as that a star blazed for two seconds
with a luminosity as great as that of
Venus. By calculating the distance
traveled they were able to translate
the eneregy emitted into terms of
horsepower, and determine the mass
of shooting star. They have come to
the conclusion that a meteor as bright
as Venus is in fact only as large as
a grain of sand. The effect, they con
tend, is not one of mere friction, but
the air in front of the grain of sand
becomes compressed and gets heated
much as a bicycle pump does as re
sult of the air it is pumping being
compressed. The particle then melts
and incandesces.”
80-Year-Old Mayor of
Aberdeen Wages War
On Rum Law Breakers
ABERDEEN, Feb. 19.—Caused by
the “cleanup” efforts of Mayor A. G.
Hopkins, 80-yearold Civil War vet
eran elected on a morality platform
in December, the new Aberdeen po
lice department set a new high mark
for law enforcement in January,
mking a total of 577 arrests.
“The number woud have been
higher if the immoral elements had
failed to heed our order to ‘get out’,”
the aged but vigorous mayor said
the other day.
Mayor Hopkins established a rep
utation as a “two-gun constable”
before being elected mayor of Aber
deen. He conducted lone raids in
various parts of the county, “shoot
ing it out” with the bootlegers on
two occasions.
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'trance Concerns
Investigating Death
Defaulting Cashier
WENATCHEE, Feb. 19.—Investi
gation is being made by life insur
ance companies of the death of Clar
ence B. Van Slyke, defaulting
cashier of the Miners and Merch
ants’ Bank at Chelan, who died Jan
uary 10, as a result of his automo
bile going into Chelan River Gorge
the morning after the defalcation
was revealed.
The investigation has centered
around a search for a note which
it was reported on the morning of
the death Van Slyke had left for
his wife saying that he intended “to
end it all." The family denies that
such a note existed, and states that
the automobile went over the cliff
accidental. Under some of the pol
icies held by Van Slyke the prin
cipal is not collectable by the bene
ficiaries if the insured dies of suicide
within a stated period. That period
in some cases was less than the
period which elapsed between the
time the Van Slyke policies were
written and the time of his death.
His life policies total about $40,000.
Requests from the investigators
for a coroner’s jury have been de
nied by Coroner D. W. Jones, who
says the cause of death was in
juries received when the car went
over the cliff, and that Van Slyke'3
intent cannot be determined.
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SAYS HE’S READY TO START
AIR EXPRESS
R. E. M. Cowie, president of the
American Railway Express Com
pany, who has told the Congres
sional committee on air service that
the company is ready at any time to
sign a contract for transportation
of express matter by airplane or
dirigible if adequate service can be
guaranteed.
PORT OFFICE AT PORT
ANGELES HIT BY SLIDE
PORT ANGELES, Feb. 20.—J. E
Maddux, proprietor of a cafe in thi>
city and E. V. Sackett, traveling sales
man, narrowly escaped death when a
landslide came from the bluff in the
rear of the cafe, through the back dooi
and window' and covered the floor
with several tons of dirt and mud las'
night. The same slide containing sev
eral hundred tons of debris, broke in
the rear upper wall of the postoffiet
and threw the west wall of the Boyd
building out of plumb. No serious
damage wras done to the cafe build
ing containing the cafe, as it was of
reinforced concrete construction.
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