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v 'Midget Goif Popular in London; i Course Makers Work Overtime » London. --Midget golf, which kas been all the rage in the United States for some time, quickly conquered Lon. don on its inauguration here last week, Star golfers played on the min- iature course opened by the Kit-Kat Club and another widely advertised course attracted a record number of Londoners, all eager to try the new game for themselves. Designers and makers of baby golf courses are working day and night because the promoters are eager to Doctors Declare Turk Is Only 100 Official Records Show 111 Years As Extreme Case of Longevity--Turk's 156 Years Disputed. Ts Zaro Agha really 156 years old, as the daily papers tell us? He will have @ hard time proving it, thinks Science News-Letter, a Science Service publf- cation (Washington), Says this paper: "The old Turk, Zaro Agha, with his birth certificate showing 156 years of age, who Is now being proclaimed to credulous New York as the oldest hu- man in the world, will have a hard time convincing scientific skeptics that he has lived so many years, "Old he Is, without a doubt, but those who have looked into such claims in the 'past are laying their scientific wagers that he is not much more than a hundred"or so, "In fact, the most extreme case of longevity that medical records shew fully authenticated was not quite 111 years, That record was substantiated by the English investigator, Dr. T. E. Young, who in the early part of this century considered close to a million cases of supposel centenarians and found only thirty persons who from other outside evidence could be shown to have lived a hundred years or more. Of the thirty, 21 were women and 9 were men. "Medical statisticians hold to their {dea that extreme old age is a rare phenomenon although in the million or:more deaths annually in the United States at least several hundred death certificates show ages of over a-hun- dred and occasional ones will show such startling records as 120 years. "When such cases are looked into it is often found that mistaken iden- tity confers upon the supposed cen- tenarian his remarkable record. Re- peatedly instances like this are un- covered: John Jones was born aad his baptism duly recorded, but he died at the age of fifteen years and through an oversight his death was not regis- tered. in the same year that he died another male child was born to the same parents and named John Jones, perhaps in commemoration of his de- ceased brother. The second John Jones was never baptized. When he reaches the age of 85 or 90 his appear- ance of Extreme senility attracts at- tention and the baptismal records ap- parently show that he is a hundred or over. The aged gentleman basks in (4 his seemingly well authenticated re-! cord of extreme age. "America has had its claimants to age records. Uncle John Shell, of Ken- tucky, who was exhibited as 'the old- est living human being' with a claimed age of 131 years, was pronounced af- ter a careful investigation of his case to be 'about one hundred years old, possibly a year younger or older.' "Despite the fact that authenticated cases of human longevity te over a hundred years are few, man is nearly the longest lived of all mammals. The common idea that whales and ele phants attain many more years than man {8 pot credited in scientific circles. But some species of fish may live to over 260 years according to the best evidence and reptiles are report- ed to have lived 175 years. Birds may have a life span of a few years longer than man in some Instances." ee fb ein WHEN MEDICOS MEET One of the most famous organiza- tions in the world--the British Medi- eal Association--has just recently finished its annual meeting, But not anywhere in Great Britain--this year the "Doctors' Parliament," as the five- day meeting of the Association is sometimes called, is being held in Canada. This isn't the first time that the LM. in the Dominion, though it has not gone there since 1906. Some of the greatest doctors in the Empire attended the meeting. To the man in the street, the meet- ngs of the B.M.A. are always very fnteresting, btcause the discussions over a wide range of subjects, many of them of a kind that appeals to y. human side of the gathering lo, Last take advantage of the public's present interest. The fact that it is an indoor as well as an outdoor game is regard- ed as a considerable advantage and it is believed that the rapidly multiply~ ing courses should draw some of the large crowds that thronged the ice Iast Winter. The green fee for an eighteen-hole round with the use of a putter and ball varies from the equivalent of 25 to 50 cents. Tropics Again Hear Roar of Hurricane The Tyhoon's Brother Is An Inevit- able Visitor In Southern Regions. Once more the terror of the hurri- cane that sleeps in the doldrums of the South Atlantic has been roused to sweep over the islands that it period- ically visits. The great storm that struck San Domingo last week and caused heavy loss of life had entered the Caribbean Sea earlier in the week, passing north of Martinique, touching Dominica and moving in a northwest- erly direction along a path that hur- ricanes have traversed many times before. September is the great month for the hurricanes that time and again have cost hundreds of lives and mil- lions of dollars in property losses. The season begins toward the end of July, and usually ends in October, although there are November hurricanes. As to the path they take, these brothers of the typhoon are capricious. Some- times they spend their ful' force harmlessly at sea, and only scientific observers in their recording laborator- ies and captains of stray ships who observe the portents afar know of their existence. At other times they run the ful. course of those Caribbean islands that stretch like a by-path of stepping stones from South America to the North American coast. LONG.PATH OF DESTRUCTION A, hurricane moves along its course like a gigantic tumbleweed rolling across a prairie. It is a whirl of wind with a usual velocity of from 80 to 100 miles an hour, though higher velocities have been recorded. The whole storm moves forward at a rate of from 10 to 15 miles an hour. Within the centre there is a partial vacuum. This is usually about twenty miles wide. The storm area rolling around it is often 800 or 400 miles wide, cut- ting a swath with its furious power of wind and rain through the country it traverses. How does a hurricane originate? The absolute answer to that question cannot be stated. But most scientists believe that in some small sea area below the paths of the trade winds the equatorial heat causes a central mass of air to rise, starting a vertical circulation. Eventually the rising air reaches a level of sufficient cold to change its water vapor to drops of water. This produees what is called heat of condensation. If the rising air mass is small, a thunderstorm is formed, but if the development is of sufficient magnitude .. hurricane may be on its way {p crea- tion. The heat liberated establishes relatively high temperatures in the rising mass, accelerating the circula- tion and the rate of cond tion, This recurring process is probably ti man- ner in which the hurricane, revolving skating rinks which were so popular | Interesting photograph showing an eer tent : -pegging at mounted police tournament and horse show, held recently at Gordon Fields, Ilford, England. blow themselves out quickly and cause' little or no damage. Although the weather man cannot control the harricane, he has, the aid of radio, so perfected his sya- tem of reporting any tropical disturb- ance that the storm is plotted almost as soon as it makes its appearance. When a hurricane develops in the Caribbean the news is promptly broad- cast 'to vessels at sea, and the path is traced day by day. Due warning is given to all ports likely to be involved. rei SAN DOMINGO RATED BY FIERCE HURRICANE Santo Domingo, Dominican Repub- lic--The city of Santo Domingo, most ancient setlement of the white man in the new world, was almost totally destroyed by a hurricane Lhat swept over the eastern end of the island of Haiti, The Lurricane struck Santo Dom- Ingo at 2 p.m. Sept. 6, and blew for four hours. Houses in the aristocratic quarter were razed to their founda- tions. Dwellings of the poor disap- peared on the wings of a wind esti- mated t« be blowing around 150 miles an hour. Scenes, whose horror exceeded any- thing witnessed here in ten years, fol- lowed its passage. President Rafael Trujillo took personal charge of the relief work The entire army was called cut. It is believed that 900 persons were killed or injured. ' in a counter-clock-wise direction as it travels, maintains itself. The devastation that the hurricane leaves in its wake is a phenomenon known to all who have lived in its re- gion. Last September a hurricane visited Nassau in the Bahamas that damaged practically every building on the island. Many lives were lost. For days the city was flooded and in dark- ness. Telephones were out of commis- sion, and it was some time before com- munication could be established with tke outside world even by radio. The sea wall was broken in several places Many vessels anchored in the harbor were wrecked. Boats were swept up out of the water and carried across roads to land near the steps of resi- dences. Florida has many times 'felt the force of the hurricanes that sweep through the Caribbean. The disaster of 1926 is.still vivid in many memor- jes. It was first noticed on Sept. 14. The next morning it was north of Porto Rico, and on the afternoon of the 16th it passed over lonely Turk's Island. Twenty-four hours later the storm had 'crossed the Bahamas, and on the morning of Sept. 18 it was bat- tering the Florida towns at the end of the peninsula. By the afternoon of the next day the hurricane had crossed the northern bight of the Gulf of Mex- EEE a LONDONERS WITNESS $5,000,000 BLAZE Wapping District. which broke out in Wapping, London East End district, recently. light, was revealed recently. Impurities Give to Produce Luminous pounds Used - Paint. als and non- Bureau of Mines, said. : "Radium alone is not lumi Mr, Tylers statement reads. stances, notably with zinc sulphide, it had been exposed to light. of zinc sulphide and alkali 'sulphid: glow for an indefinite period." i | for air ./| plane pilots sedking to land on a fog-| "| bound airport, u device that "hears" the development to a group of aero- | nautic experts attending the national alr races, including Major James Doo- Glow to Radium Radiothorium and Mesothorium Com- Only impure radivm is luminous, aceording to a report made by Paul M. Tyler, chief engineer of the rare met- Is division of the rtment of Com- merce. The fact that a faint glow often comes from tubes of radium : | salts is explained by the fact that the saits contain impurities, Mr. Tyler "The faint glow that sometimes is exhibited by 'tubes of radium salts is owing to impurities. 'By : mixing radioactive material with phosphorescent sub- paint that will glow in the dark may be produced. "According to one authority, it was a shoemaker of Bologna who noted more than 800 years ago, that heavy spar heated in charcoal possessed the property of: glowing in the dark after pilot's ears and activates an electrical altimeter that shows the number of 'feet the plane is above the ground. 'World's Airmen Begin Congress Lighting of Routes As Ald to Night Flying and Insurance of Fares on Program. > _ The Kague.--Since 1918, when com- petition between nations in aviation turned to the scientific and commer- cial side, four great international con- gresses have taken place--in Paris, London, Brussels and Rome, A fifth is being organized at The Hague. The meetings, except for the first, which is being held in tho Arts and Sciences Building, . which dates 8,000 persons, are being held in the Binnen- hof, famous in recent years for Reparations and Pe.c. Conferences. Some idea of the magnitude of the work may be gained from the fact that 500 experts in various branches of aviation, traffic, science and technics, legal matters, medical questions and tourism, have inscribed their names as members, Twenty-one countries are represented. TO DISCUSS NIGHT TRAVEL A number of papers of great gen- Other . eral interest in matters will be entered phosphorescent powders, mostly blends ' and read which directly concern the 2, airplane passenger. On of these is were discovered subsequently, and that of the lighting of air routes for were used for producing temporary: night travel. stage effects, for example, long before ' bers of three different. nationalities the discovery of: radii m made it pos-' are presenting papers. P. van Braam sible to maintain the phosphorescent van Vlioten, a Dutch member, deals On this subject mem- with the subject from the scientific Mr. Tyler said that the ingredients | point of view; W. H: Hampton and and formulas for producing luminous | C, E. Ward, of the British Air De- paints change from time to time. In| partment, discuss "the requirements the United States, he said, paint used | for 'aerodrome and air route lighting with 2,000 Flee From Tenement: Homes in on 'watch' dials had consist:d ma at the rresent time,' and two Germans, | of crystalline zinc sulphide mixed with FF. Born and H. Strahler, discuss the London. --Two thousand persons fled | various proportions of radium, meso- éffect of large neon tubes by which the from tenement homes 'before flames | thorium and radiothorium to obtain loss.of power resulting from filtration the greatest degree of luminosity. At of red lights is avoided. first zinc sulphide was made luminous | To. the business man who either Three hundred firemen used tem |bY radium alone, but later cheaper | travels by air or uses the airplane for methods were found by using meso-! consigning goods, the paper by Herr miles of hose in fighting the fire. It was estimated that the blaze which started in a spice warehouse, did damage of about £1,000,000 (about $5,000,000). Ari SPANIARDS FIND JOY IN SILENT FILM Madrid --Old silent films, made and shown in the United States 10 years ago, and in some cases more, are hav- ing quite a run in Spain this summer. The programs of most of the movie theatres here just now are made up of reels that Hollywood ground out long before the talkie era. This is to fill the gap until a sufficient supply of Spanish-language talkies can be pro- duced, whether in the United States or in Spain itself, to give a steady run of talkie programs to the Spanish theatres equipped for them. EE There are 741,800 agricultural work- ers in Great Britain; this is 28,600, or nearly four per cent. less than last year. Aviatrix Honored in Wales by the force of the wind-driven sea. 3 thorium and radiothorium. Wrongsky, director of the Lufthansa "As reported by Dr. Hartland, the undertaking on "Co-operation between paint used by girls in a New Jersey factory contained chiefly zinc sulphide, rendered luminous by activation with about 20 te 30 per cent. radium and from 70 to 80 per cent mesothorium containing radiothorium. He quotes other authorities to the effect that these paints may contain all the way from 7 to 3 and even 4 milligrams of radium element to 100 grams of zinc sulphide. Impurities may be added to the zine sulphide as follows: Cadmium, .056 per cent; copper, .001 per cent.; manganese, .0002 per cent." Mr. Tyler describes the British prac- tice of using luminous paints, saying that they are of great military signifi- cance. In England luminous paints are used for the illumination of watch dials, gun sights and compass cards and any other forms which would not betray the presence of the military to the enemy. During the World War the British government bought eighteen grams of radium for war purposes. As en HIDDEN CITY FOUND BY MEXICAN 8COUTS Mexico City.--The U:8. Department d that Boy Scouta had discovered a new arch- aeological zine in the wilds of the Stato of Guerrero. Among the figures «discovered is a large stone sphinx bearing a marked resemblanca to that of Education in Egypt. "Government archaeologists are leav- ing forthwith to study the zone, which, according to the discoverers' prelimi ary reports, probably includes an en- tire buried city. A number of hills in the zone are believed to cover pyra- mids. On ths summit of one there a huge globular stone covered with kind of Mieroglyphics. The department communique said that there was no known record of the zone, which it was believed had nuver been seen before by a white '| man. The discoverers brought photo- graphs of the sphinx and other relics with them as proofs of their find. EE a. "The past is a bucket of ashes."-- Carl Sandburg. the airplane and other means of trans- port" will be of exceptional interest. abeard liners sent to Davey OBLIGATORY INSURANCE URGED. The papers by the Frenchman, A. Grandjean, on "Uniform rules for marks of identification on military airplanes," and that by Andre Kaftal on "Obligatory insurance of passen- gers in aerial transport," will have a' wide and general appeal to public in- terest. Curiously, the subject of aerial tour- ism has found little favor, and only three papers have been submitted. These, however, cover the subject very thoroughly, one dealing with formali- ties and facilities, another with secur- ity in aviation, while the third deals indirectly with this subject by discuss- ing that of instruction and examina tion of apprentice pilots of airplanes engaged in tourism, Equally important to the passenger is the section given. over to medical matters, for not only is air-sickness in all its aspects being discussed, but the health conditions of the pilot are receiving considerable attention. The need for specialists in these matters is 11 dmitted, and fwo Dutch doctors roundly assert that "the medi- cal specialist in aeronautic complaints must himself be a nilot." Between thirty and forty papers on medical subjects have been entered. INFLUENCE OF RADIO STUDIED The influence of radio on aviation is not ig d, and besides the ref to it in the report of the American liaison committee there are contribu- tions to the discussion by the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company, Dr. W. Moller and Herr F. Eisner (Ger- many), and A. Celloni, F. Marino and U. Cuerra (Italy). Capta'n N. Mac- millan, the English pilot, will talk about "Problems of air transport from the pilct's point of view." Besides the theorists and those who have ideas they wish to advance, the membership includes many distin- guished aviators. From England Sir "Sefton Brancker is coming, Lady Bailey, of "Cape to England" fame, also is to be present. is a lode of "drowned locating off Cape rre, France, "of the sunken hulk of the Fan { Egypt with its cargo of $5, 0 of 'gold and silver. Rich as this i --and it has yet to be brought to the qurface--there are far richer hoards restiag at the DO 24 of I coast. Pieces-of. t in Span< bn su.l by English raiders or the fury of storms, golden ingots Jones's | locker in war or shipwreck, still wait to be retrieved by adventurous spirits. Hundreds of syndicates and individu- als 'have engaged in this romantis quest, but failure, not success, has generally attended their efforts. Probably the most successful under- sea hunt for gold was that conducted in ninety feet of water off the coast of Ireland, when $35,000,000 in the hold of the White Star liner Laurentie sunk by a German submarine in 1017, was recovered. Efforts at reco the gold were begun in the summer following the Armistice. At Srst the the operation was difficult and nerve. wracking. The Laure: tic's sides bulge ed and her decks collapsed. Extensive dynamiting and a general disarrange- ment of the wreck was necessary. Months. passed before any real head- way was made, and then the gold be- gan to core vp. Every last coin was retrieved Another success was recorded in the case of the liner Oceana, struck by another vessel near Gibraltar some /years ago. She was taken in tow, but rough weather caused her to sink about twenty miles from Dover. The water was deep and she lay on the bot. tom apparently secure from the reach of man. But a daring diver pried open her treasure room and reccvered about $4,000,000. DEEP DIVING FOR TREASURE Other successes, less notable, may be cited. One hundred years.ago a Turkish fleet bearing booty from Greece was met by a.combined French, British and Russian armada and sunk in the Mediterranéan in Navarino Bay. . Of the $50,000,000 cargo about $250,000 was recovered. In 1915 Cap tain Benjamin Leavitt, in the steamer Blakely, found the wreck of the fri- gate Cape Horn, sunk about sixty years ago in the Pacific off the coast off South America, and recovered sbout $600,000 in copper. Although the value of the salvage was not so im- pressive as some others, its import ance lay in the fact that the metal was taken up from a depth of 31% feet. The treasure of the Egypt. inci. dentally, lies 403 feet down, where the pressure is extremely great. Although eareful preparation, fine ancing, and the use of modern diving equipment make the successful hunt- ing of sunken gold largely a matter o# calculation, luck often enters the pie- ture. In 1924, rear Nassau, a young American girl was engaged to do fancy diving for a :not'on picture com- pany producing an undersea film. One day as she was deep in the clear waters around the island she saw the figured handle of a chest lying in the sand. Tackle was brought and the chest brought to the surface. It cone tained Spanish doublvons of the vint- age of 1790, valued at nearly $50,000, More than $250,000,000 in bullion is estimated to have been recovered from the wrecks of treasure ships by French and English syndicates, which sell shares in the venture to the pub. lic. The total of the unrecovered trea- sure, however, exceeds this sum by many times. And although the ap- proximate locations of many of these undersea fortunes have been known for years, the treachery of the ocean and the difficulties of working below certain depths have prevented salvage. Many of the tales of Spanish gal leons, heavy with gold, sunk' at certain locations. Perhaps the most famous is that of the ship Pereira, supposed to have carried tae pay of the Spanish Armada in 1588. She was driven through the English Channel by the storm which helped Drake repel the * invaders, and sank off the Isle of Mull in Tobermory Harbor. Sofar the hulk 'has given up little of value, but in all the romance of treasure-hunting ne richer prize is believed to exist. Pro moters speak of at least $10,000,000 aboard the Pereira and investors has. ten to buy shares, No less than fifty companies have Yried to reach the treasure. A THE GREATEST TREASURE. In Vigo Bay, on the northwestera coast of Spain, lies the largest known gold,' that of the Vigo Bay plate fleet, It is believed to have .amounted to $100,000,000 in : gold and silver ingots, sent to the bot- of the bay amid the flames of