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Pilots to Be Busy
They will be far too busy, what with several score instruments, oxygen valves and control switches, cameras, radio transmitter and receiver and other scientific "gadgets" snugly packed into the nine-foot metal ball.
Two portholes, somewhat smaller than a street manhole, will have their scientific use—as well as offering a means of entry and exit—in enabling the crew to study such visible phenomena as cloud formation and color of the upper heavens. They likewise will permit reading of instruments outside the shell.
One instrument—a thermometer actuated by 18 bimetallic springs—and equipped with a dial two feet or more in diameter, will ride in the very top of the balloon proper, about 300 feet above the gondola.
Capable of recording air temperatures of from minus 50 degrees to plus 50 (centigrade) it will be read through a "telescope" in the top of the shell.
To Last 12 Hours
The instruments for measuring cosmic radiation are being supplied by Dr. W. F. G. Swann of the Bartol Research foundation of Franklin institute, Swarthmore, Pa., and Dr. R. A. Millikan of California Institute of Technology. Spectographs were made under the direction of Dr. W. B. Rayton and Gustav Fassin, Rochester, N. Y.
Even though the two army pilots may "scarcely have time to breathe," there will be plenty of good fresh oxygen within the metal sphere. Sixty-five pounds of liquid air and liquid oxygen is being taken aloft, and, fan driven over aprons of cloth sacks containing pellets of sodium hydroxide, will emerge "fresh and sweet" for consumption by the two men.
The flight is expected to require 12 to 16 hours, depending upon conditions, Capt. Stevens said as he cleared his desk for his contemplated departure.
Returning Thief Suspect
Cherokee, Ia.—Special: Sheriff Art Tilton left Friday for Glasgow, Mont., to return Russell ("Toots") Leonard, wanted here for alleged theft of money and travelers' checks from Jim Noonan. Leonard was taken in custody at Glasgow after officials here learned he was headed that way and notified authorities to watch for him.
take advantage of the means for escape.
Newton had confessed to theft of some harness from Eugene Lias, Westfield. The harness was sold to a West Point, Neb., farmer, and Newton was arrested following an investigation by Sheriff R. E. Rippey. Newton's arrest was believed to have broken a harness stealing ring operating in Iowa, South Dakota and Nebraska.
Bank Receiver Moves Office
Emmetsburg, Ia. — Special: Headquarters for a federal receivership of five northwestern Iowa banks was moved from Graettinger to Emmetsburg Friday. Offices are in the closed First National bank here, with Edmund Carmody in charge. Banks under his jurisdiction are in Everly, Milford, Ayrshire, Graettinger and Emmetsburg.