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Rocket Trips To The Moon
Defended By British Group
LONDON Rocketing to the
moon ia no fizzle, says the British
Interplanetary Society. In fact, to
impress on the public the serious
ness of those who are virtually al
ready queueingr up for their return
tickets to the moon is one of the
chief aims of this society which
has offices in London, a research
director, librarian, publicity de
partment, and a President, Prof.
A. M. Low, who is a well-known
physicist and one-time sound con
sultant to London Underground
Railways.
The B. I. S. deals with astrono
mical figures but in the financial
sphere challenges an allegation
made by an Edmonton professor,
Dr. J. W. Campbell, to a recent
Montreal gathering of savants f
the Royal Society of Canada to the
effect that rocket travel to the plan
ets was impracticable. The Chris
tian Science Monitor published an
account of this gathering and the
B. I. S. has since asked that space
be found for its contention that
lunar travel is no more Utopian
than Atlantic flights and television
were to our ancestors.
Dr. Campbell's claim that it
would require 1,000,000 tons of fuel
to take a pound of matter to the
moon was hotly contested by Mr.
A. C. Clarke, treasurer of the B. I.
S. Mr. Clarke explained that Dr.
Campbell's calculations bore no
relation to the facts, which, he as
serted, could easily be checked by
an engineer.
The Society has been working
on calculations for a voyage to the
moon for a number of years, Mr.
Clarke said. Taking the simplest
case, that of a soace ship leaving
the earth, it would be achieved, he
claimed, if the ship were to travel
at about seven miles a second
Rockets have already achieved ex-
haust velocities of about three
miles a second.
Moreover for a rocket ship to
leave the earth, the Society's ex
perts have calculated it would need
from 20 to 30 tons of fuel for every
ton of final payload. -' '
A design of a ship, which with
known fuels is said to be capable
of reaching the moon and returning:
to the eart with a payload of nat
ural scientific value, is published
in a recent issue of the Society's
journal. The Society is prepared to
support by detailed calculations
Prize Of $1,000
For Symphonic
Work Is Offered
ST. LOUIS. (U.P.) The St.
Louis Symphony Society, second
oldest of its kind in this country,
is offering a $1,000 prize for a new
symphonic work by an American
composer in connection with this
celebration of its sixtieth anniver
sary during the 1939-40 season.
The judging committee, to pass
on all manuscripts, together with
a piano reduction of the score, sub
mitted by next February 1, will con
sist of Conductor Vladimir Golsch
mann, Rudolph Ganz, president
of Chicago Musical College and
former conductor, and a third
member not yet named.
According to the society, the
contest is designed "to stimulate
activity in the field of symphonic
works and to focus attention on
the increasing importance of the
native composer to. the symphonic
repertoire."
The prize-winning composition
will be played by the St. Louis
Symphony Orchestra under
Golschmann's direction at one of
the final concerts of the season.
to the moon, Professor Low an
swered, "Why not? Where is the
old spirit of adventure? What
aboul natural science discove
ries ? Besides some of those who
want to go even hope to find some
solution of the political situation,
either by staying there tfntil the
world becomes more sensible or as
one continental physicist goes so
far as to think, some influence
might be brought to bear on the
world by threatening to bombard it
with missiles from the moon if
terrestrial differences were not
settled speedily."
With regard to the second part
of the question, Professor Low ad
mitted that it would be necessary
for visitors to the moon to be
equipped with special apparatus to
enable them to live in the different
atmospheric conditions.
That the journey should only be
undertaken by the most adventur-
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One Thing Leads
To Another . . .
GREELEY, Colo. A cat scoot
ed across Greeley's main arterial
highway and here's what happend-
ed: . .:'
1. The driver of a small coupe
etopped abruptly to keep from
striking It
2. A ten-ton truck, loaded with
fruits and veeetables. directly be
hind the coupe, swerved to keep
from hitting the smaller car.
3. The truck turned over, strew
ing fruits and vegetables over the
highway.
4. The driver of the coupe and
his two passengers escaped injury
although the truck struck it a
glancing blow. The truck driver
likewise was uninjured.
5. No ordinary wrecker could
budge the big truck and it blocked
the avenue. Finally house-moving
equipment was located and was
iioaJ mill fko truflr hnplf nn its
wheels.
6. Police guarded the street and
nearby sewer intakes for most of
the night because the truck's gas
oline had drained into them, cre
ating a fire hazard.
Insanity Plea
Faces Obstacle
Michigan First State To Take
Steps To Remedy Evils Of
Insanity Pleas
mm io inritpnt-A4 in on a tf inla in
any of the statements made in the . the July issue of the Society.8 jour.
nal dealing with automatic control
journal.
Professor Low threw further
light on the activities of inter
planetary enthusiasts. He stressed
the seriousness of their approach
to the question of flying to the
moon, and said he understood that
in Germany the moon flight project
had received some Government
support.
"Some of -Europe's prominent
physicists assist us in our work,"
he said. "The British Interplane
tary Society's membership totals
about 100 and there are a number
of corresponding organizations
abroad."
New Field of Adventure
Asked why anyone wanted to go
which would be used for most
stages of the flight. Acceleration,
it is pointed out, is bound to re
strict physical movement and may
temporarily impair mental activity,
for which reason automatic pilot
ing is advised.
Manual control is not, however,
entirely abandoned.
BETTER
Sweet potato starch, now ad
vancing out of the experimental
stage is rated better than the im
ported starches which Americans
have been using at the rate of
400,000,000 pounds a year.
DETROIT, M i c h. Michigan
hopes it is bidding a relieved fare
well to insanity pleas in murder
cases by killers who seek to dodge
justice.
Four year to the day after the
state outlawed the "heart balm"
suit, Michigan will show the door
to another problem child of the
courts.
On Sept. 29, the law covering
insanity pleas by persons accused
of murder will change.
A jury may acquit a slayer "by
reason of insanity," but a life com
mitment to an asylum must fol
low, the new law will direct. From
this, he could be released only
upon order of the Governor after
a hospital commission's recom
mendation. The revised law followed two
Michigan murder trials that re
cieve widespread notice.
In May, 1938, Carl (Jack) Liv
ingston, 43, known as a "playboy"
of the oil fields, walked into a hotel
taproom in Clare, Mich., and shot,
his former friend and employer, J
Isiah Leebove, to death.
The case was a sensation, large
ly because Leebove, wealthy from
oil enterprises, had an interesting
background. Something of an ad
venturer, Leebove abandoned a
criminal law practice in New York
and tried his luck in oil. The Mich
igan fields made him a rich man
and some dabbling in state poli
tics made him a "mystery man."
Attorneys for Livingston con
tended he suffered delusions that
made him live in mortal fear of
Leebove, that he drank heavily,
and his mind was affected.
In December, after a 15-day trial,
a jury found Livingston "inno
cent by reason of insanity." The
next month two court-appointed
alienists declared him sane, and
he was a free man again.
Even as Livingston was awaiting
trial, slim, blond Fern Patricia Dull,
34, divorcee, shot and killed her
employer-lover, William Holbrook,
on the street in front of the Ben
ton Harbor., police station.
Her attorneys said she was "tem
porarily insane." Her romance
with Holbrook, a lawyer estranged
from his family, had been a turb
ulent affair. Mrs. Dull testified
she didn't remember the shooting.
A jury convicted her of man
slaughter, and she was sentenced
to 14 to 15 years in the Detroit
house of correction.
The Michigan legislature, con
vening shortly before Livingston
went free and less than a fortnight
after Mrs. Dull was sentenced,
moved to revise the statutes.
Thus, after Sept. 29, a person
acquitted of murder in Michigan
"by reason of insanity," goes
straight to an asylum for life.
The amended law also provides for
a pre-trial insanity test.
In outlawing "heart balm" suits,
Michigan prohibited action for
breach of promise and alienation
of affections. That act was to
check extortionists and black
mailers. Supporters of the new law claim
it will restrain lawyers from us
ing an "insanity" defense, by shut
ting off the defendant's hope of
early freedom through such a maneuver.
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